The Stubborn Legend of a Western ‘Coup’ in Ukraine
While Russia has made a slew of outlandish assertions about Ukraine, including that the country is led by a Nazi regime, few Russian narratives have entrenched themselves more thoroughly in the Western far right and far left than that Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was illegitimately removed from office in a Western-backed coup in February 2014. This claim has been a key element of Russian propaganda, echoed in the United States by such public figures as independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., filmmaker Oliver Stone, and Cato Institute defense expert Ted Galen Carpenter.
Read this article and be educated:
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/08/04...th-yanukovych/
Originally Posted by txdot-guy
... By Adrian Karatnycky, a senior fellow at the
Atlantic Council
and published by
foreignpolicy a neocon publication.
The article of course finds a way to blame Putin, and frames the events of 2014 as a brave freedom seeking people rising against backwards oppression by turning towards the enlightened values of their betters in the West.
So a voice in the neocon community saying neocon things, nothing new.
What surprises me is that this is stuff that's been repeated for 10 years now and it somehow still got published.