But the Russian's own version of the Deep State meddling in nations like Ukraine was and is okay...just like everything else you criticize other nations for supposedly doing that Russia was also definitely doing.
Absolutely it is okay given that those in Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk and Donbass wanted help from the Russians and, ultimately, wanted to be part of the Russian Federation.
You don't grasp that the large ethnic group in those regions were Russian and voted for a President that was driven out of office by an illegal coup. The people there were under NO obligation to remain part of a Ukrainian nationalists/neo-Nazi government that were hostile to them.