But clearly the people in the east would like their self-determination and this seems to be to  rejoin Russia.   So your bias is showing again.  I have no pony in this show and am not personally invested like you.....I look at the facts and figure something smells.  I know Russia are not angelic in all of this, but I remain confident the USA should have stayed out entirely and when the next election came about, hopefully a more favourable government would have emerged.  But when you do sneaky immoral and illegal stuff people react.  I get why Russia did what it did, it made sense geo-politically.  The US wants to hem them in more as they like to create bogeymen and keep them under control.  Why should Russia stand for that?  China wouldn't. 

Something else that seems clear is the involvement of fascist parties and neo-Nazi supporters, I am unsure why you remain silent on those in the Ukraine in all of this?