Was EuroMaidan events in 2014 a Revolution or a Coup?

First aired on Monday 10 July 2023 on AL Mayadeen network

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George Galloway:

We are discussing Ukraine; not yesterday in Ukraine but the beginning of the war in Ukraine which was not 12 months ago as most commentators and did much of the public imagine that it began, it began in the maidan in the maidan coup or the maidan revolution according to your taste.


The United States and the European Union were deeply involved in the events of 2014 in Kiev the capital of the western Ukrainian State as it will almost certainly now be remembered as the uprising that took place there was no doubt in part genuine but it was equally in no doubt part confected by the EU and the U.S although the U.S plenty potentially then won Victoria Newland who pops up extraordinarily often in the Ukraine story and not just in the Ukraine story she famously said f*** the EU at that point the EU was acting as something of a break on events in Ukraine whereas now they are entirely subservient to the U.S line still being piloted by the very same Victoria Newland …

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Contributors:

Robert Oulds	Director, Bruges Group
Edward Renyard	A signatory of Artists for Palestine UK pledge Director of Az Theatre and teaches occasionally at the London Film School
James Randolph	Filmmaker and broadcaster
Dr. Stephen Hall	Video link From Bath, England Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Russian and Post-Soviet Politics”
Prof. Ivan Katchanovski	Video link From Ottawa, Canada Professor at the school of political studies, University of Ottawa”

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