On Rachel Maddow Making it Seem as if Ukraine Was Simply Minding its Own Affairs Until Russia Barged in and Started Destroying Shit Out of Sheer Evil (Their Leader Is the Next Hitler, You Know)

So is that what really happened or is there more to the story? Come to think of it, there's more to the story in that our buddy omitted - a) Russia's agreement with N.A.T.O. that there wouldn't be any Eastern expansion of the organization, b) that N.A.T.O. reneged on their promise and proceeded to stockpile 14 new member between 1990 and 2016, c) Ukraine's election of a Russian-friendly President in 2010, d) how N.A.T.O. and the U.S. helped engineer a coup in which a much more pro-Western stooge was installed, e) how Ukraine's new leadership has been pushing for N.A.T.O. membership since 2014, and f) the harsh fact that if Ukraine were to get a seat at the big boy's table the end-result would be N.A.T.O. forces and hardware right on the Russian border, an untenable reality from their perspective. But sure, keep on fightin', that's the ticket.