I said that the decision to pull out of the EU deal and look to Russia nudged the CIA into staging the Maiden coup. If the Ukraine was willingly going along with the EU deal and closing out Russia then there would have been no need for a coup and in fact it would have been counter-productive. You either miss my point or somehow think the USA would have still wanted to arrange a coup in a country that was already a willingly bribed ally.
It's more complicated than "Well, the hoholinos were manipulated and psyopped into a coup!" The 2013 Maidan protests against corruption were
not orchestrated by US glowniggers, but they did indeed take them over, to the dismay of the the original protesters. I distinctly remember one of the organizers, close to tears, explaining this in an interview. Nationalist thugs were brought in and snipers that have long since been identified as Georgians used for the express purpose of killing protesters as was the case in Egypt when Mubarak was targeted for removal. The goal was the ouster of Yanukovych, to replaced with someone that would go along with Nuland, by characterizing it as an uprising against tyranny. You know, the usual Soros "color" revolution playbook.
The loans, EU and NATO membership were carrots used to lure hohol plebes into accepting the new narrative-that Yanukovych was merely a Russian puppet-and stop any talk of anti-corruption, because the goal, for the United States, has never been anything
but to use the Ukraine as a cudgel and stepping stone into Russia, and the breakup of the Russian Federation to make the exploitation of Russian resources easier to accomplish. Corruption was, and still is, actually
essential for the US to accomplish what our oligarchs believe was stolen from them when Putin put an end to their thievery in Russia (as well as putting the brakes on the 2008 Russia/Georgia incident re: Abkhazia/South Ossetia).
tl;dr the US doesn't give a fuck about the Ukraine, the objective was, and always has been, to destroy Russia. The mere mention of NATO and prospect of US military bases inside the Ukraine should have tipped you off. Also, l like said before, a lot of hohol insecurity about always being in Russia's shadow combined with a prospect of EU gibs, in country that's poor compared to their neighbors to the east and west, was a potent motivator for many in accepting Yanukovych's removal and the swing to Banderite rhetoric by their new leaders.
That said I did initially sympathize with the
original Maidan protesters. Corruption has been the bane of Ukrainians and an obstacle to efficiency and prosperity for the average Ukrainian. Shame the original purpose for the protest has been memoryholed.