“I’d feel much safer living in Russian-controlled territories.”
The way you spout off Putin’s thuggish false propaganda it looks like you must already be living “in Russian-controlled territories” as one of Putin’s propagandists.
There are an abundance of ethnic Russian Ukrainian citizens who want absolutely nothing to do with the Putin dictatorship and Russian totalitarian governments. That includes most of Ukraine’s present leadershoip whose native born language and culture are Russian and not Ukrainian.
Then don't come whining to us for help. The US is in serious debt, so why should we subsidize your fuel bill? You want the US to defend your borders when the government won't even defend our own? We're under a very big threat that maybe can't be reversed by the invasion from the south. The reason we respect Putin is he is doing something our last few presidents have been unwilling to do. That would be to defend his country and countrymen from invasion.
It's not okay to do what was done in Kiev, with CIA inspired violent demonstrations. In the US, protestors who reached that extreme would be arrested, and if they posed a threat to non-protestors, shot.