I seriously don't understand the outcry.
All newspapers over here focus on that irrelevant "Fuck the EU"-statement. But the really troublesome aspect about that conversation is not some stupid three-word-phrase that everyone would say in a conversation expected to be private - it's the fact that the US is apparantly actively spurring these riots, and is already considering which politicians they want to install in a changed government.
Which reminds of recent analysis by US intelligence service Stratfor:
"For Russia, Ukraine’s future is closely connected with its own future. Ukraine is an area reaching deeply into Russia’s heartland. If it lost Ukraine from its sphere of influence, Russia could no longer be defended. The main transit route for Russian energy carriers towards the West, the basis of Russian economy, runs through Ukraine. This implies that Russia will fight bitterly for keeping the greatest influence in Ukraine.
For the United States, the support of certain Ukrainian political forces is the most efficient means to push Russia back. Recently, Moscow has repeatedly outmaneuvered Washington, most prominently with respect to Syria and the Edward Snowdon affair. US support for the protest movements in Ukraine are a means to restrict Russia’s attentions to its own region and to keep it from an offensive against the United States.
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Russian behavior in the Snowden affair has angered Washington and opened the possibility that the United States might be happy to create some problems for Moscow ahead of the Sochi Olympics. The U.S. government may not be supporting nongovernmental organizations as much as its counterparts in Europe are, but it is still involved somewhat. In fact, Washington may even have enjoyed putting Russia on the defensive after having been put on the defensive by Russia in recent months.
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The United States is interested in Ukraine as an irritant to Russia but is unwilling to take serious risks."
So it seems to be pretty much like this: The US is trying to fuck Russia (as a punishment for giving asylum to Snowden & crossing US plans for Syria) by spurring the riots, and now russia is fucking back by leaking embarrassing statements by US officials that reveal the true motives of US behaviour regarding Ukraine.
