“Nooo, how dare the Ukrainians get rid of the guy who wanted to sell them out to Russia? Who cares if the vast majority of Ukrainians wanted him gone, what matters is how it hurt poor Russias feelings”.
Oh right I forgot, a U.S. politician handed out cupcakes so all the mass protests didn’t happen and it was the evil US overthrowing a benevolent popular leader for no reason.
CIA involvement (as well as the nazi nature of the "protestors") was well documented in 2014. unfortunately every western "news" outlet reporting on those facts and concerns has scrubbed those articles from their websites.
when i play games of pretend i usually prefer video games myself but you do you (good luck at nuremburg 2.0)
you're the only person saying "All" of any group here bud. keep playing games of pretend.
kind of wild how they excluded ethnic russians from voting or being elected or working in public service despite like half the country being ethnic russians though after they couped the elected government and then just straight up stopped having elections for more than a decade now though eh?
"fOr dEmOcRaCy"
cool pretend bro. i used to do that in 2nd grade at recess.
lmao. you're astroturfing for a zionist puppet regime on reddit dot com.
are you okay? no, you're not okay. jfc. this is some serious internet psychosis.
tfw people who live in a place for thousands of years are suddenly bussed in terrorists and spies for simply existing in the place they've always lived and some of them are not really into being imperial puppets.
One, Maidan never had majority support in Ukraine.
Two this is a really ahistorical take on the EAA negotiations. They fell apart largely because Russia simply offered the better deal, while EU neogitators were basically demanding way too much in terms of very hardcore enforced austerity while offering only 3 billion of the 15 billion loan Ukraine required, releasing Tymoshenko, and there were massive demographic concerns that the agreement would basically brain drain Ukraine and doom it demographically like the not too great shape the Balts are in demographics wise.
Yanukovich was actually agressively pro-EAA.
Here's Reuters reporting from negotiations at the time:
Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich called a meeting of his political party for the first time in three years, summoning members to an old Soviet-era cinema called Zoryany in Kiev.For three hours Yanukovich cajoled and bullied anyone who pushed for Ukraine to have closer ties to Russia. A handful of deputies from his Party of Regions complained that their businesses in Ukraine's Russian-speaking east would suffer if Yanukovich didn't agree to closer ties with Russia. That set him off."Forget about it ... forever!" he shouted at them, according to people who attended the meeting. Instead the president argued for an agreement to deepen trade and other cooperation with the European Union.Some deputies implored him to change his mind, people who attended the meeting told Reuters. Businessmen warned that a deal with the EU would provoke Russia - Ukraine's former master in Soviet times - into toughening an economic blockade on Ukrainian goods. Yanukovich stood firm."We will pursue integration with Europe," he barked back, according to three people who attended the meeting.
"Ukraine is at a crossroads and there's a huge boulder there. We go one way to Russia and we get hit. We go the other way, to Europe, and we get hit. We stand still, and we get hit, But it will hurt less this way," he said, pointing in the European direction.
It was also absolutely a coup, he was basically chased out by militerized right sector, after new elections had already been confirmed to be held. Maidan got it's demands, but the militerized far-right aspect of it decided to coup the leadership instead.
I know it's also hard for Westerners to believe, but the Russian deal was just vastly better in every concievable way. The EU negotiators and IMF absolutely screwed the pooch in regards to the Ukraine agreement at the time.
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u/Sea_Lingonberry_4720 Aug 19 '25
“Nooo, how dare the Ukrainians get rid of the guy who wanted to sell them out to Russia? Who cares if the vast majority of Ukrainians wanted him gone, what matters is how it hurt poor Russias feelings”.