It wasn't threatened by a NATO build up of 600,000 man army that was funded and armed by the US and other NATO countries? This after we promised the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO in the early '90s.
Nor was it threatened by the fact the were operating 30 or so biolabs in Ukraine with deadly pathogens in them?
If Russia or China had done anything similar in Mexico, WE WOULD HAVE INVADED, JUSTIFIABLY SO.
All you have are lies.
Whatever the nature of the events in 2014 (and I do not accept your characterization of a coup), there have been two national elections since. The present government was elected, not "installed." Sorry, but Russia does not get to dictate who rules Ukraine.
…that tried to cutoff its access to a naval base it had maintained in Crimea since 1783?
I am sorry but Russia does not get to demand retain military bases in other nations because they once had them in the past. Should Finland and the Baltic nations cede old military bases back to Russia because they once held them? Should the US cede military bases to the UK because we were once a British colony. Russia needs to accept that the days of the old Russian Empire are over. Additionally, the present war shows that Russia's naval base in Sevastopol is militarily useless against modern weapons. So what is the point in keeping it?
It wasn't threatened by a NATO build up of 600,000 man army that was funded and armed by the US and other NATO countries?
You forgot to mention that the buildup was a response to Russia's 2014 invasion. Was Ukraine just suppose to ignore the fact that Russia was militarily occupying Ukrainian territory? And no, Russia was not threatened. Even with that military it is Russia that is doing the invading, not Ukraine. The only threat that the Ukrainian buildup had was that Ukraine could protect itself from Russian aggression. Russia could no longer militarily threaten Ukraine and pretend to be its overlord, like in the good old days of the Russian Empire.
This after we promised the Russians no eastward expansion of NATO in the early '90s.
If Russia had not been so aggressive with its neighbors perhaps the eastern European nations would not have begged to be included in NATO. You always leave out that part of the equation. Why?
“Nor was it threatened by the fact the were operating 30 or so biolabs in Ukraine with deadly pathogens in them”
True…..including bioengineering H5N1 (bird flu) to infect humans for Jobama.