“No, there wasn’t. (Say hello to Alex Jones from us.)”
Well, you don’t have to personalize the issue. I didn’t even know who Alex Jones was until i looked him up.
But, I imagine that if we stormed Washington and Obama fled the city and sought refuge in Chicago and the Congress replaced him in his absence, someone would be calling a coup. Isn’t that about what happened in Kiev?
Sorry, I associate the word ‘coup’ with this radio blabbermouth, whom I only know from reports here.
Anyway, you are asking a good question. Was it a coup or not? The president fled and the parliament replaced him. By the way, there is a video on Youtube showing his men packing his possessions in trucks BEFORE he signed that agreement with the two foreign ministers which was never observed.
The pattern of government in the Ukraine has been: Popular Revolt to election won by one group of hopelessly corrupt politicians to bureaucratic revolt to election to install pro Russian mafia to popular revolt and chaos. I wouldn’t view an out and out thief as a legitimate government when he ran on a reform ticket. Of course, by that measure, there aren’t that many legitimate governments around.