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  • Only relevant sources and no insults, thanks I guess?

    US played a direct role in both funding and orchestrating the coup

    It did play a role, we agree on that; my point is that it is very speculative to assume that it single-handedly had the whole decisive power. Whether they truly led the revolution is a disputed fact, even among your sources. Same for choosing the new government, the phone call shows they had a say in that, but to my knowledge nothing shows that they single-handedly picked the whole government, as there were other parties involved, including Ukrainian pro-EU and Ukrainian nazis.

    That they were going to join NATO is a pure speculation based on the opinions that

    • US held all the decisive power over that government
    • US’s only goal is military expansion

    About the latter, do you think an economic weakening of Russia through the EU-deal would not already be a favorable turn for the US? I recall that the official position of the Maidan government was that it was not planning to become a NATO member, at least until the annexation of Crimea.