[Repealthe17thAmendment]

The basis for this was started in 2014 when the Obama administration supported a coup in Ukraine to replace the Russian-leaning president, with a government that was friendlier to the west. The goal was to bring Ukraine in the the EU, and perhaps even into NATO. The eastern part of Ukraine that borders Russia, rebelled against the coup and were engaged in a civil war with the new Ukraine government. A peace deal was supposedly reached in 2015, the Minsk Protocol, but was never enacted, as the fighting never really ceased.

After eight years of this civil war, Russia began defending the people who preferred close relations with Russia and rejected the western influence.

Obviously, Russia escalated the war by attacking Ukraine, but this was hardly a sudden move, and there was a lot of meddling going on by the US.

[pierrem15]

There was no fighting by anyone, except for Yanukovych attacking Maidan protestors, until Putin sent arms and forces into the east. The US supported Yanukovych’s removal, but there is no way the US could have gotten tens of thousands of protestors to risk their lives at Maidan. The push to get rid of Yanukovych came from the Ukrainians themselves. Russia sent arms and troops into Ukraine in 2014, there was no “civil war.”