Ukraine and Deep State hate(d) Trump because he was/ is likely to work out a Realpolitik accommodation between Ukraine and Russia to stop the bloody fighting ( and arms dealing) in Eastern Ukraine ( where western energy companies are looking to grab energy resources) and to accept Crimean reintegration with Russia.
Americans will not die for Crimea ( which seems quite majority content to be back in Russia) nor for gas deposits and pipelines in eastern Ukraine,
Nor should we be in the business of selling Ukraine American lethal weapons to kill each other or resell on the black market
Absolutely true— Americans are not “for the King’s command” types, like the poor bastards at Gallipoli and the Australian Horse.... in the Crimea.
Churchill found all of that difficult to live down— and ostracized for years because of the folly and loss of life.
There is a lot of baggage from the Ukraine— not to forget the abject horror that was the decision of Lenin and again Stalin to starve 11 plus million “rich” peasants to death— the Holodomor. One major reason there are films of the Ukrainian survivors of that if at all possible—cheered the invading Nazis as liberators from the monsters of the NKVD and Stalin.