Robert Parry: The State Department's Ukraine Fiasco

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14. You might want to check up on the definition of "coup"

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coup%20d%27%C3%A9tat

coup d'état
noun \ˌkü-(ˌ dā-ˈtä, ˈkü-(ˌ dā-ˌ, -də-\

: a sudden attempt by a small group of people to take over the government usually through violence


Who was the "small group of people"? Where was the violence that forced Yanukovych to leave against his will?

Yanukovych took three days to pack up various valuable possessions such as oil paintings and flew away on his own accord in his own helicopters. There's clear video evidence to that fact. There is nothing to indicate that he was kidnapped or forced to leave against his will. Nothing.

There was no coup. Regime change, yes, but no coup.

Regarding Crimea, before the heavily controverted vote this year, Crimea never voted to become part of anyone. It was conquered by the Russians in the late 18th Century and heavily Russified, and most of its native population was deported by Stalin in World War II. While under Soviet rule, it was shuffled around from the Russian SSR to Ukrainian SSR, which was pretty much meaningless given that it was all under tight Soviet control.