It’s important to remember that when it comes to foreign ops, the Russians have by far the biggest, most experienced, and the most skillful, propogandist operation going.
Unless someone has pretty solid evidence otherwise, to the best that I can ascertain, the Ukrainian Parliament has not significantly changed membership in all this, and they can toss out the present leadership more easily than they impeached Yanukovych. Has Ukraine’s Parliament been Nazi all along? (Rhetorical question.)
Really though, most of this is irrelevant noise compared to what happens when the rest of the world sees the US and its people (not just Obama! Just look at half the posts here!) unwilling to live up to a MAJOR negotiated Security Assurance, one reaffirmed repeatedly from 1994 to 2009.
People get tired of backing war by supporting the wrong side.
Please cite the specific lines of a specific agreement where we guaranteed we would go to war, a la NATO, to guarantee Ukraine’s borders.
From what I can tell, Clinton made a stupid empty gesture to get Ukraine to give up their nukes. Obama’s people more recently doubled down on stupid.