If any of that is even true, those are just the kinds of problems voters elect opposition parties to correct.
But in wartime, priorities shift to one thing and one thing only: how to defeat the invaders.
MarMewma: "The last 8 years were a civil war."
The war was launched by Russia in 2014. It was not a "civil war", it was a Russian invasion, and remains so today.
How stupid do you have to be not to see that?
It was in fact exactly a civil war. The east rebelled against the Nazi regime and declared themselves separatists.
Eight years of fighting. East versus west.
Crimea had nothing to do with it.