11 Years Ago: The US Carried Out a Coup d' Etat in Ukraine
Eleven years ago today, the CIA and, likely MI6, lead a Coup d'état in Ukraine. They dubbed it the "Maidan" revolution. They've been at war ever since.
It was 11 years ago today that all the REAL trouble in Ukraine began. The US financed protests in Ukraine with almost one million dollars a day, in cash, coming out of the US Embassy in Kiev.
In the next weeks, the protests would become so violent, the CIA-backed protesters burned Ukrainian government people alive in cities like Odessa and Mariupol. Within months, the democratically-elected President, Viktor Yanukovych, was overthrown and a puppet government was installed by the US and the EU, in Kiev.
This caused the people of Crimea to vote in a public referendum, to secede, and return home to Russia. Crimea had only been part of Ukraine for about 55 years, after Nikita Khrushchev (a Ukrainian) General Secretary of the Soviet Union, GAVE Crimea to Ukraine. Crimea voted overwhelmingly to return home to Russia.
The collective West recoiled in horror, and refused to recognize the vote, even though it was closely monitored by United Nations election observers. To this very day, the collective West denies reality, and refers to Crimea as "occupied."
After Crimea departed Ukraine, Luhansk and Donetsk wanted to leave. Ukraine, at the urging of the EU and the US, massed troops on the borders of those two Oblasts (states) and began firing artillery and mortars into the civilian populations. They wanted to ethnically-cleanse the Russian-speaking population! The state militia of both Luhansk and Donetsk fought Ukraine to a standstill, but at a terrible price: 13,000 civilians were killed by the Ukraine shelling and mortar fire.