I've been arguing with a friend of mine the past few days who's convinced all of this is just some kind of CIA operation to get back at Putin for reasons. Or something. Also that people should never be able to protest about their "democratically-elected government".
The very idea that CIA would somehow be involved in a violent and coordinated coup for the purposes of advancing its geopolitical interests.... Somebody get your friend a tinfoil hat amiright or amiright!
Just like a model of the solar system of epicycles-within-epicycles that accurately predicts the location of Jupiter a few times must be the explanation for all further observations of Jupiter, right?
I've been arguing with a friend of mine the past few days who's convinced all of this is just some kind of CIA operation to get back at Putin for reasons. Or something. Also that people should never be able to protest about their "democratically-elected government".