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Ukraine is starting to topple, and the US has to ensure the right sort of people maintain control of whatever is left.
Who would win in a coup, the depleted conscript armed forces, or well armed, ideological paramilitaries with outside funding and direction?
Imagine the outcry if this had happened in a real democracy, like Venezuela.