“…the people believing that the government was killing demonstrators, but they were killing police and trying to get them against the mob. That was when the elected president left. So it was a very U.S.-promoted coup right from the start. And the nominal purpose publicly is that the U.S., under Clinton, decided that they should expand NATO right up to all of Russia's borders. After having Bush promising Gorbachev NATO would not expand another inch. But that was just to relax the Russians so they could move nuclear weapons right up through all of their borders.”