Ukraine was not a very stable country to start with. Half-Russian, Half-European, all corrupt. It didn’t have a very strong sense of its own culture or itself.
With that in mind, Obama and his band of fools played a very high-stakes game, attempting to destabilize elected President Yanukovych and replace him with Arseniy Yatsenyuk (remember “F### the EU,” and “Yats is our guy.” They gambled stupidly that Ukraine could survive another proxy-civil war and that Russia would not react to an American attempt to meddle in their former client state.
Obama was spectacularly wrong on both accounts. He broke the Ukraine, and Crimea and the Donbas are never coming back.
Ukraine was not a very stable country to start with. Half-Russian, Half-European, all corrupt. It didn’t have a very strong sense of its own culture or itself.
How do you know that wasn't his intent all along?