"USA prepared a coup in Ukraine for twenty years"

That was said by the former U.S. agent Scott Rickard, who spoke to Russia Today and considered that U.S. intelligence agencies worked on the current developments for so long and have spent huge sums of money.
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"Only from the Agency for International Development U.S. approximately $ 5 billion were spent, while funding for such programs has been done by George Soros, who has spent than 10 billion euros the last 30 years" he said. The former American agent also assessed that most Western countries were surprised and did not expect decisive actions from the Russian side.

"They expected with certainty that Russia will be disappointed, as Moscow was cooperating very closely with Yanukovych. Putin, in the given situation, made a very strong strategic move, saying that others fortify behind their backs by manipulating governments in power mobsters. In any case, the Americans were preparing laboriously for 20 years. Everything was designed in advance" he noted.

The expert in security matters, however, also mentioned that only in some occasions they gathered 500,000 citizens, despite the fact that the population of Ukraine is about 50 million, a number not so great after all, if you extrapolate that they tried for 20 years, only a few years after the West promised to Mikhail Gorbachev that it would not move NATO forces an inch to the east ...