Yup, "stupid" people of Ukraine wanting to be free and not under Putin's boot. Amazing FReepers are arguing this position.
Ukraine had it made with abundant natural resources and an ideal situation sitting between East & West where they could collect $2 billion a year in transit fees for Russian oil and gas going to Europe. All they had to do was remain neutral.
But they were played by corrupt globalist forces and are now a welfare state reduced to begging for money. The US doesn’t just pay for their military they pay to run the government itself, pensions and everything else. The Ukrainian people have shown themselves to be too stupid to have their own country. What freedom do they have now? They will just be another economic dependency of the US and EU.