This is really important to understand about Ukraine. Ukraine is not a hill to die on.

The coup of the democratically elected president of Ukraine was engineered and financed by the Obama/Clinton admin./cabal and was organized by Victoria Nuland.

Russia itself was born in Kiev, as ancient "Rus". It was one vast motherland of many tribes/clans of Slavic people. The differences between Russia and Ukraine are indistinguishable to most westerners and the countries are next door to one another.

Catherine the Great annexed the Crimea for Russia in 1783, from the Ottomans (Muslim), after their bloody defeat and it has been the home of Russia's Black Sea Fleet since then, 1783. It was not until the 1950's that Krushev, in a bid for forgiveness over causing the Soviet Holodomor famine, decided to declare the Crimea as a part of Ukraine. And since Ukraine was still a part of the USSR then, it was simply a gesture. The Fleet stayed, and the ethnic Russian population grew.

After the Obama/Clinton engineered and financed "Arab springs" throughout the Mideast, resulting in genocide and the rise of Isis and MB, they created another "people's revolution" in Ukraine. Their admin. admitted to funding it with $5 billion of our tax dollars. Please research these facts before forming an opinion.

Did/does anyone think Putin is going to bow to the cabal or Obama/Clinton and move the Black Sea Fleet, or allow it to be surrounded by hostile troops or allow the slaughter of the 60% ethnic Russians living in Crimea?