This while one of the powers behind Obama, George Soros, poured money into the Ukraine to stir chaos and impossible expectations.
One of those impossible expectations was that Russia would walk away from Crimea - when Russia took it from the slave trading Ottoman Empire 250 years ago and has maintained its presence there since. This Russia did even after losing the Crimean War and even (through military treaty) after the collapse of the USSR and Ukrainian independence.
Yes, the megalomaniac bumbler occupying the White House IS to blame for the Ukraine also.
“One of those impossible expectations was that Russia would walk away from Crimea.”
Ukraine did nothing to prevent or stop the Russians from using the naval yards in Crimea. There was no geo-strategic reason to annex it.
They have merely won a temporary battle in annexing Crimea. Strategically, Russia is isolating itself as a rogue nation and strengthening NATO, pushing nations into stronger ties with NATO and putting them closer to the Western orbit.
Putin is no chess master, this is an epic disaster for Russia in the long term.