Hello, there was no "Nuland-designed Maidan coup", and no, there was no indigenous violent rebellion in the Eastern regions.
Nuland was so personally involved that she was handing over food and drinks to "protestors"
And still she had no effect on the actual course of events. The whole Nuland story exists entirely in the lefty/peacenik blogosphere; but it's a complete non-story within Ukraine. You will literally not find a single educated person who gives any credence to it (outside the usual 5 percent of population who are ready to go off and believe anything).
I see Americans will disgustingly continue to put their head into the sands regarding the extreme culpability of the U.S. statement department in the coup of Ukraine despite any level of evidence. There are any number of decade-old videos you can find of Nuland joyfully co-mingled with Maidan protestors. She traveled several times to Ukraine to participate in the protest. (Many of explicitly clear ones where she cracks jokes regarding the President while handing out cookies have disappeared over the years, thanks to take-downs)
In the famous Nuland-Pyatt leaked call, Nuland and Pyatt discussed who should or should not be in Ukraine's new government. This was happening even before the President Yanukovych was kicked out! She even said "No" to Vitaly Klitschko as a replacement. He was far too moderate, you see. She explicitly mentioned anti-Russian extremist Yatsenyuk as her choice. And LO - the heavens agreed with her choice. He became the leader of the post-coup government.
And that lead directly to the rebellion. It was the equivalent of a Nazi taking charge of a nation with a large number of Jewish districts. Obviously, you would have a rebellion after the coup. And obviously the rebels would ask for Russian help and receive it. Israel gets hardcore military support halfway across the world from U.S anytime it needs it. Why wouldn't Russia assist rebelling ethnic Russian regions terrified by the coup ? Remember - this was a LAWFULLY elected President - VETTED by the EU overthrown in a coup! With the U.S. State Department Shining Star in full support.
(There was another interview with a frightened EU minister who talked about the U.S. involvement in the coup and her fear of the future. Can't find this since its been a decade now)
Nuland immediately became the lead U.S. point person for Ukraine's "Revolution of Dignity" and also established loan guarantees to Ukraine's new government, including a $1 billion loan guarantee in 2014.
You appear to need an absolute, extraordinary threshold of evidence - which is simply impossible without waiting for 2064 where this stuff will be hopefully de-classified, unless the U.S. President at the time postpones de-classification. Yet, the U.S. has gone to war on the basis of circumstantial evidence time and time again.
Nuland giving out cakes and comingling with protestors represents major culpability in a coup?
So those protestors didn't riot because Yanukovych killed the EU association agreement a day before signing?
An agreement that he ran his election platform on and replaced it with a customs union with Belarus and Russia.
Btw it was Yanukovych who proposed making Yatsenyuk as prime minister on Jan 25.
FSB thug Igor Girkin himself said that he and his men started the Donbas conflict when they occupied Sloviansk.
The first prime minister of Donetsk Alexander Borodai once said in a phone call that his loyalty was to one and one nation only, the Russian Federation.
Nuland was so personally involved that she was handing over food and drinks to "protestors"
And still she had no effect on the actual course of events. The whole Nuland story exists entirely in the lefty/peacenik blogosphere; but it's a complete non-story within Ukraine. You will literally not find a single educated person who gives any credence to it (outside the usual 5 percent of population who are ready to go off and believe anything).
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481317