Historians one day will puzzle why Western leaders were concerned to such an extent about a dispute over the internal political borders of the old defunct Soviet Union when their civilization was threatened by unsustainable debt, non productivity, destitute migrants and an assault by jihadists.
No they won’t be puzzled at the West’s hard fought and deadly final victory over one of the monsters of WWII that enslaved countries and enslaved 100s of millions, and why that was Reagan’s life goal and our goal to never live through that horror again.
Thinking like yours to give the Soviet Union a second chance, would puzzle them though.
One doesn’t need to wait for history - I’m puzzled myself why the EU or USA would want to involve itself in Ukraine/Russian issues.
Ukraine has been in the Russian sphere of influence for 500 years. We didn’t care about Ukraine’s borders at the height of the Cold War. Why now - and what is Obama up to there?