The Ukraine mess is about organized crime, mafia families, and corrupt usage of politics to further a gangster agenda. If the EU trade deal back in November/December had involved them...this would have gone through, and no civil war. The gangster groups of Russia and Ukraine saw some transparency deal coming in....wiping out their current agenda and pay-offs.
Today? There’s no business deals and the only cash is what they siphon off from Moscow’s natural gas and oil profits.
Who could possibly dislike such wonderful people as the Russians?
I mean, besides everybody.
You just described Russia pretty well