Anyone else getting sick of the damned Ukraine? The nazi Svoboda/right sector coup overthrow the government and had the western Ukraine and Kiev, and solidly everything west of the Dneiper river.
Ok done. But a coup only gives you the right to grab what you can take by force. People in the east and Crimea were bitterly opposed to the coup, possess the same rights as the Kiev coup to grab what they can, and and happily for them, Russia shared their interest in not wanting NATO to roll right up to their border.
And Russia was as likely to give up the Sevastopol navy base as we would be to give Norfolk to the Chinese. So Russia helped them keep the nazi armies out of the east. (The coup leaders were smart and formed Azov and Direlwanger brigades out of the most radical Kiev coup soldiers and sent them east to get them outta town and hopefully dead)
Bottom line. Nothing in the life of any American involves Ukraine. Its sickening to watch the whole US government grind to a halt over Ukraine. Ukraine was a McCain and Obama operation that enriched the Bidens and Kerrys. Ukraine is the source of the Russia/Trump narrative. It hurt their enemy, and helped their allies, the democrats. So far 8000 Americans have had the sum of their lifetime taxes given away to Kiev. And it’s less than a sparrows fart in importance to America.
Thanks for the Putin/Russian talking points, but you're going to have to come up with something new since Ukraine elected president Zelensky who is of Jewish decent.