For this claim to be true, I’d like the phone call to have occurred before the Maidan demonstrations began; but it was two months late for that. I’d also like it to anticipate the violence that broke out the following week, which it does not. So I’m actually left with the impression that this call is a diplomatic reaction to the Maidan protests, and not the “orchestration” of said protest.
The US was quite public with its diplomacy:
Article: On 7 February 2014 Victoria Nuland told a press conference in Kyiv that the U.S. was ready to provide support to Ukraine “if it moves quickly in the direction of the protection of human rights ... Read even more
