...”Putin just got tired of dealing with the complications of a crooked flake like Yanukovych”....
Of course he did...just as the people did....and why Putin didn’t interfer with Yanukovch’s being outed.
However, US and EU quickly put their people in as the interium government who quickly overstepped their power by attempting to change agreements and laws, which they had no business doing, and this with the US and Eu directing.
Putin saw this coming and why he was already prepared, even during Sochi, to act to defend his ports and Crimea.
The only reason Kerry/ McCain and others have been trouncing throughout Ukraine during the protests was to rub it in Putin’s face...and that majorly backfired on them as we see playing out. The U.S. administration isn’t concerned with the people of Ukraine....they want indirect influence/control, through Nato, over Ukraine.
That’s probably an accurate analysis. I don’t think Russia really wants to be in charge of Ukraine, either.
And now that Kerry has thrown a billion dollars their way (Obama strikes again), the Ukrainians will probably be so busy fighting with each other to steal it that they really won’t care who’s in charge.