I don’t doubt that there was western involvement, just as there was certainly Russian involvement supporting prior administrations. While it can be difficult to discern the true desires of Ukrainians given outside involvement, its very easy to say that the current government in Ukraine is much more democratic than plenty of US Allies in other parts of the world, eg the Middle East.

> Also, your media probably do not say that Ukrainian politicians repeatedly announced plans to exterminate Russian population of Ukraine. Physically kill all the Russians just as Hitler (he's considered a hero in Ukraine) wanted. You'd probably never find this in English or any other language spoken on the West, but there is plenty of evidence in Russian/Ukrainian even though a lot of it being scrubbed in the last 200 days. Still you can find a lot of those on YouTube for example, if you can understand Russian/Ukrainian.

If this is so easy to find, why not provide actual sources?

Edit: the irony here is the extremely close parallels between this war and hitter’s annexation of the sudentenland.

> How do you know this? Did Putin said this personally to you? Announced this in the media?

I can tell from his actions. Russia has been invading its neighbors the entire time he’s been in power.

Did I go a bit overboard when I said “complete fealty”? Sure. But it’s quite obvious that Putin won’t accept those states as anything less than Russian client states within its sphere of influence.

> Has US ever suffered sanctions for that? I don't remember any.

US does bad things so other countries should do bad things too.