It coincided with US interest. Last year we gave the equivalent of 5% of our military budget to Ukraine, to neutralize the russian army as an offensive threat to NATO.
Again, the war did not start in Feb 22, and the roots of it lay way beyond the first Russian annexation of Ukrainian soil. Also, it's obvious at this point that Russian actions in Feb of 22 were no real threat to NATO. The only reason it was viewed as one is because te globalist ginned it up as one and got the rubes all riled up. You, and every other FReeper who go back and forth as either pro-Ukraine or pro-Russian are all shills for one side or the other. We have no common ground to start a meaningful conversation.
If you all were half as vehement about what's going on here in the US as you are about what is going on in Ukraine, maybe, just maybe, our country wouldn't be as screwed up as it is.