Ukraine and Russia didn’t have beefs between them....they’ve been interconnected for years, doing business etc. There was no Russian boot on their necks that they didn’t willingly put there when they voted. They should have waited til the next election and booted his butt out rather than the violent coup they orchestrated.
The beef is when Eu/Nato/US went after Ukraine to merge with the EU and Nato on Putins’ border and involving themselves in his area of influence and the politics of Ukraine. They knew this would create issues with Russia as did the nations and oligarks who funded it all.
And guess what....Ukraine still will not be admitted to the EU as has been already determined...and here they are left basically on their own to fight against Russia.
The EU and US will not fight this....so someones going to have to yield...again!
There was never a question of Ukraine merging/joining with the EU. What was on the table was a trade agreement. Russia, as well as its cheerleaders, created a false choice by demanding that EU membership was on the table. The real issue was the fact that Yanukovich, from the time he came to power until he abandoned his country, had been steadily eroding Ukraine’s freedoms. In the great communist tradition, he was working to make sure that his election would be the last democratic election in Ukraine.
All this talk of EU, Soros, Nazis, Muslims, Neocons, socialists, rightwing extremists, fascists or whatever is nonsense stirred up by Putin and repeated by his dishonest and/or credulous followers.
Russia is not threatened in any way by Ukraine, Georgia, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, or Lithuania, yet we are supposed to believe that Putin has a legitimate right to violate the sovereignty of other countries because his tender sensibilities may be violated. Absurd.