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===February 2014===

===February 2014===

*'''4 February.''' Amid rioting on the Maidan in Kiev, YouTube carries Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s last minute instructions to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt regarding the U.S. pick for new Ukrainian prime minister, [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]] (aka “Yats”) and other plans for the imminent ''coup d’etat'' in Kiev. When Pyatt expresses concern about EU misgivings about mounting a coup, Nuland says “F*** the EU.” She then apologizes to the EU a day or two later — for the profanity, not for the coup. She also says that Vice President Joe Biden will help “glue this thing together”, meaning the coup.

*'''4 February.''' Amid rioting on the Maidan in Kiev, YouTube carries Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland’s last minute instructions to U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt regarding the U.S. pick for new Ukrainian prime minister, [[Arseniy Yatsenyuk]] (aka “Yats”) and other plans for the imminent ''coup d’etat'' in Kiev. When Pyatt expresses concern about EU misgivings about mounting a coup, Nuland says “F*** the EU.” She then apologizes to the EU a day or two later — for the profanity, not for the coup. She also says that Vice President Joe Biden will help “glue this thing together”, meaning the coup.

*'''22 February.''' '''Coup d’etat in Kyiv'''; President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted from power;<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup/</ref> appropriately labeled “the most blatant coup in history” by George Friedman, then President of the widely respected think-tank [[STRATFOR]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k&feature=youtu.be</ref>

*'''22 February.''' '''Coup d’etat in Kyiv'''; President Viktor Yanukovych is ousted from power;<ref>https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup/</ref> appropriately labeled “the most blatant coup in history” by [[George Friedman]], then President of the widely respected think-tank [[STRATFOR]].<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k&feature=youtu.be</ref>

*'''23 February.''' The date that NATO, Western diplomats, and the corporate media have chosen as the beginning of recent European history, with silence about the coup orchestrated in Kyiv the day before. President Vladimir Putin returns to Moscow from the winter olympics in Sochi; confers with advisers about Crimea, deciding to arrange a plebiscite to let the people of Crimea, most of whom strongly opposed the coup regime, decide their own future.

*'''23 February.''' The date that NATO, Western diplomats, and the corporate media have chosen as the beginning of recent European history, with silence about the coup orchestrated in Kyiv the day before. President Vladimir Putin returns to Moscow from the winter olympics in Sochi; confers with advisers about Crimea, deciding to arrange a plebiscite to let the people of Crimea, most of whom strongly opposed the coup regime, decide their own future.