HomeForeign Fridays

Chronology of the Ukrainian Coup

Like Tweet Pin it Share Share Email

Why do we even care about the Ukraine? Is there any national interest in spending US tax dollars there?

Listening to the US media, even the most diligent news junkie would find it difficult to know that the U.S. State Department played not only a vital role in the violence and chaos underway in Ukraine but was also complicit in creating the coup that ousted democratically elected President Viktor Yanuyovch. Given the Russian Parliament’s approval of Putin’s request for military troops to be moved into Crimea, Americans uninformed about the history of that region might also be persuaded that Russia is the aggressor and the sole perpetrator of the violence. Read more here.