[Jimmy Valentine]

The bottom line is that Russia wants Ukraine back.

[DesertRhino]

“The bottom line is that Russia wants Ukraine back.”

That wasn’t the case until the coup, not a move was made to make hat happen. Before that they wanted 2 things, to have Ukraine not steal gas in pipeline transit...and for Ukraine not to become a NATO member.
They never wanted it back, it’s so corrupt even Russia sees them as “corrupt”.
But they were never going to sit still for NATO formations on the border 350 miles from Moscow, and 250 from Volgograd, and Sevastopol being a US Navy base.

But it was a nice neocon dream.

[servantboy777]

I'm thinking, we need a big ol military base right on the Russian border in Ukraine.