“ Like the demented husband who murders his wife because she wants a divorce.”
You forgot Ukraine voted in a pro-Russian President. Then the US orchestrated a coup and viola! Then they started slaughtering the ethnic Russians.
The Russians want to and voted to become part of Russia. The Ukrainians don’t vote anymore.
They voted in a liar who said he'd steer Ukraine into the EU. When he revealed his true colors, 800,000 Ukrainians (in Kyiv alone) revolted and drove him from office. No CIA needed. The Parliament voted him out, entirely legally.
Did you know that there actually WAS an attempt at a forcible coup in 2014? By a gang of 200 or so led by one O. Bahtiyarov, who fortunately got caught by the Ukrainian security service before they could overthrow the interim President and disrupt the election that followed Yanukovich's departure. Bahtiyarov was sponsored by an organization calling itself the Eurasian Youth Union of Russia. Almost simultaneous with Putin's illegal seizure of Crimea. Funny, that.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/alexander-dugin-the-crazy-ideologue-of-the-new-russian-empire