Does anyone have any links handy to a consolidated breakdown of the Ukraine coup? I was arguing with a lib friend on this and he doesn't believe it was a coup at all, or that the US was involved. He thinks the Ukrainian people wanted to join the EU via a referendum and then Putin intervened to stop that. I've read passing tidbits on things like meetings at the US embassy, Yanukovych's sudden turning away from the EU/IMF, etc, but it's all still a little unclear even for me. Would appreciate an article or substack or something on this, and any podcast episodes would be cool too
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/06/03/how-why-us-government-perpetrated-2014-coup-ukraine/
https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/11/25/how-western-press-lied-about-2014-coup-ukraine-pretending-real-democratic-revolution/Greyzone coverage in general: https://thegrayzone.com/?s=ukraine
TrueAnon is consistently good on this, they have a two-parter with Mark Ames:
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/ukraine-with-ames-part-1
https://soundcloud.com/trueanonpod/ukraine-with-ames-part-2