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Re:What Will Become of the CIA? by simonh on Tuesday July 22, 2025 @08:20AM (#44645962)
There are plenty of well documented and unambiguous cases where the CIA has overthrown governments, directly interfered in elections and exerted covert influence but Ukraine really doesn't look like one of them. Possibly in the covert influence sense, sure, but nowhere near at the level of determining the outcome.

The constitutional crisis in Ukraine in 2014 was between President Yanukovych and the Ukrainian Parliament, which is actually the sovereign institution. In a constitutional sense it wasn't even really a revolution because the sovereign institution was never overthrown. It pressured Yanukovych into resigning, backed by massive public support.

Re:What Will Become of the CIA? by coldtea on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @09:37AM (#44659121)
There are no sovereign institutions in client states except in name. And anybody who tries otherwise (like spurning the IMF), gets economic, diplomatic, and even personal blackmail. Propping a dissident far right ultra-nationalist minority to build up as "mass revolt" is then easy, classic Banana Republic style.
Re:What Will Become of the CIA? by simonh on Thursday July 24, 2025 @06:21AM (#44669037)
A 'far right' government that has a jewish president, and which large numbers of LGBT+ citizens have flocked to support militarily.

https://www.lgbtmilitary.org.ua/en/

Re:What Will Become of the CIA? by coldtea on Saturday July 26, 2025 @11:26AM (#44694807)
>A 'far right' government that has a jewish president

Why, are we in 1930s Germany when those things were incompatible? It's 2025, get on with the times:

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/orban-netanyahu-israel-war-crime...

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/le-pen-as-frenc...

Supporting Jews and Israel especially is a great way for modern far-right to get allies on its anti-immigrant and anti-muslim campaigns. The same is increasingly true for LGBT+ rights (take Geert Wilders as an example).