Watch Winter on Fire and then tell me all those unarmed students, working people, women cooking for protestors, priests, imams, rabbis and the protestors with shields who stood in front of Yanukovych's well-armed Berkut were armed CIA agents.

I suppose the Orange Revolution in 2004 and the Rose Revolution in Georgia were also coups?

The Bolshevik storming of the Winter Palace was a coup. The February 1917 uprising was a real revolution. This is no false dichotomy.

Your view of Ukrainian civil society as inertly manipulable putty in the hands of an omniscient CIA is laughably inaccurate.

The Ukrainian philosopher Volodomyr Yermolenko presents an accurate picture you could learn from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7BwXmB1744

Here's the true nature of the "constitutional" kleptocratic mafia with a flag Yanukovych regime you're defending:

https://www.cnbc.com/2014/02/25/inside-the-extravagant-palace-of-ukraines-former-president.html