If Yanukovych was so loved, such a legitimate leader of the people, why didn't he stick around? Couldn't he handle a few protesters? The current president is i

If Yanukovych was so loved, such a legitimate leader of the people, why didn't he stick around? Couldn't he handle a few protesters? The current president is in mortal danger from the Russian Army every single day and hasn't left Kyiv. Democrats didn't flee the US when a couple thousand Trump supporters made trouble in the Capitol. The Governor of Minnesota didn't flee the country when people got mad about George Floyd and had huge, occasionally violent and dangerous protests. Yanukovych wasn't facing the entire Big Bad West. He wasn't even facing unrest on the scale of the incidents mentioned above. He was facing a few Ukrainians who didn't like him. And he fled. He fled not just Kyiv, where the unrest was. He fled the entire country. With no intent to return. Without saying so much as a word for himself and his supposedly legitimate, democratic, will-of-the-people government. He wasn't marched out naked by the Evil All-Powerful West and guillotined. He fled. Like a pathetic, weak coward who believed in nothing. Which is what he was. If you're too much of a baby to exist near your people, maybe you don't have the right to rule them, even if you were elected. Hardly a coup. Hardly