that's one hell of a way to spin shooting your own civilians then running away to russia when things get too hot as the domestic population rises against you
if autocratic shitholes waging imperialist wars suddenly are afraid of doing business with the eu, i don't think it'll be a great loss. though you should question your values if you find yourself with allies like russia, iran and north korea
To be fair, someone opened fire before the police and shot both protesters and police, which means that the purpose was to create a conflict that the police had no chance of winning… that resulted in the overthrow of the government.
You can believe that Yanukovych or Putin are just so unbelievably stupid that they ordered that, if that’s what you’d like to believe. Seems unlikely to me, especially when you have a recording of American officials discussing who they’re going to replace Yanukovych with.
Fer reference, the transcript of that recording:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957It’s bizarre to me that the same people who attack the US for it’s use of economic hitmen and jackals in Latin America are totally unwilling to entertain the idea that they used the same tactics in Ukraine.