> Ukraine people started protesting by their own will. To allege that it was due to foreign influence is to deny Ukrainians of their agency.
Do you extend the same line of thinking to separatists in Crimea and Donbass?
Do you extend the same line of thinking to separatists in Crimea and Donbass?
So the difference is clear:
- in Kyiv, everything started with protests that the government tried to suppress for several months
- in Crimea everything started with Russian military taking control over the peninsula which is a foreign intervention, exactly the type that commenters above try to attribute to USA. But there were no USA soldiers on Maidan, and there were Russian soldiers in Crimea and Donbass.
The Guardian says otherwise: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/23/ukraine-crisis...
Second, the parent comments were explicitly referring to overthrow.