Thank Obama. His fingerprints are all over the overthrow of Yanukovych. What did he think Putin would do? Suck his thumb? I’d say Putin is about two clicks away from invading Ukraine and taking Kiev by force. Gazprom will then dictate terms to the EU.
Sad, another major blunder by Obama.
That's all BS. Leftists and anti-American conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones keep claiming that Obama and Soros are supposedly behind what happened in Ukraine, forgetting that Yanukovych was beating people, stripping people naked in the snow, kidnapping and torturing people, and passing dictatorship laws, long before McCain or the U.S. started giving kudos to the growing number of protestors. There are also a great number of lies and misrepresentations spread by Russian media, and also lots of stupid people who vomit them up on this forum without checking if what they are reading is true or not.
Case in point, the association agreement is not for Ukraine to join the EU. It is a trade agreement, the same one countries like Israel also has with the EU. Yanukovych campaigned on it himself, until Putin told him to reverse course.