The crisis started many years ago. NATO greedily looked forward to establishing a naval base in Crimea and having Russia removed forcefully if necessary. Russia helped Crimea avert being taken over illegally by annexing Crimea through a legal referendum by the people in Crimea…
Ukraine was promised EU/NATO and yes USA love and kindness membership and a good life if they turned their backs on Russia. They turned their backs on Russia and a handful of the elite in Kiev did gather goodies, as the money flowed in to pay off the “Benedict Arnold’s” within Ukraine, but where is that good life promised the Ukraine people, 8 years after the USA/EU overthrow of the Ukraine government?
And what are the future prospects? The Ukraine people themselves have lost almost everything that mattered to them and as always in our world, a handful of people gathered all the money and sit at the top of the pile of corpses…
One thing they did get an abundance of is western propaganda, yet that was all they got…
WtR