We didn't overthrow the government in 2014, that's another of you peoples conspiracy theories.
There is a very simple peace proposal that has been available the entire time: Russia leaves Ukraine. And just like that, there will be peace. Maybe not for Putin personally, but golly, that'd be a shame.
Speaking of which, the above belief by the appeaseniks represents yet another of their core complaints they've gotten completely wrong: the idea that the West fomented a coup in Ukraine back in 2014.
A deep dive into the full transcript of the Victoria Nuland call they often claim confirms this coup reveals that the exact opposite is true. Nuland did not “choose” Ukraine’s leader or otherwise orchestrate a coup during the Euromaidan.
She was floating candidates for PM, not President, and only because Yanukovych *asked* the West to help mediate a deal with the opposition. Nuland and Geoffery Pyatt are discussing who should become PM alongside President Yanukovych, NOT who should replace him as president. With the President retaining the greater power of the two positions.
Therefore, per the transcript itself (the full transcript is available online through various sources), a Nuland led plot obviously did *NOT* exist. When Pyatt suggests outreach to Yanukovych, does Nuland reply “No, actually, Yanukovych must be replaced?” No, she agrees and says “yeah, let’s bring Biden in on that.”
Nor was Nuland trying to force this arrangement on an unwilling Ukraine. It was Yanukovych himself who, on Jan. 25th, 2014, originally put forth the idea. That’s the proposal Nuland and Pyatt are discussing.
Furthermore, in a three-hour meeting with his opponents, Yanukovych offered the deputy prime minister’s job to Vitaly Klitschko, the head of the UDAR party. Klitschko announced afterward to the crowd in Maidan that there was no deal. The two sides need to keep talking. Yanukovych’s stated willingness to amend the laws passed in mid-January 2014 restricting the freedom of speech and assembly wasn’t sufficient according to Klitschko, and he called for their full repeal instead.
(full disclosure: I cannot claim the above analysis as my own, but it is correct)