A leaked phone call (from February 2014) between Victoria Nuland, Assistant Secretary of State for Europe, and Geoffrey Pyatt, US Ambassador to Ukraine, revealing the level of planning for the coup that overthrew the elected President Viktor Yanukovych, which brought to power (as heard on the recording) a group of select individuals described as "moderate democrats." This was a far-right nationalist faction -- the characters in the story that led to "the worst crisis since the old Cold War" -- in fact a new Cold War more dangerous than the first.
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