Lets seee...
US/NATO stance is that in Ukraine is cool nice government that is up against cruel dastardly Russian invaders.
- Now we know that there are over 8 MILLION Russians in Ukraine and that Kiev regime controls nothing outside government building in Kiev. Plus Babushkas made elite Ukrainian paratrooper unit surrender or retread - later to be disbanded.
retreat.
Eastern and Southern Ukraine have been polled multiple times, the most recent in February or March, and they always come back the same. Ethnic Russians, who also took part in the Maidan protests, do not, as a majority, support annexation or federalization. Only a small minority does. There is no popular support for the Russian rent-a-mobs.