In the meantime, my knowledge of the conflict has certainly been enriched. I learned that since 1991, Ukraine has been in the sights of the US as the main pivot for controlling Russia, which the US did everything it could to ruin after the collapse of the USSR. First of all economically, through Yeltsin, the patron of the post-Soviet disaster, who was a Washington-sponsored puppet – in the 1996 re-election campaign, the USA also came with money and know-how. However, the Americans refused to help Russia economically as they did with Poland, according to Jeffrey Sachs, professor of economics at Columbia University, economic advisor in several countries of the former Soviet bloc in the 90s, including Romania.
In 1997, a renowned neoconservative, former national security advisor in the Carter administration, Zbigniew Brzezinski, writes a book called “The Great Chessboard” where he describes American ambitions related to Ukraine as a pivot for Eurasia.
In 2007, the current director of the CIA, William Burns, then the US ambassador to Moscow, wrote a memorandum to President Bush 2 called “Niet means niet.” In the memo (which I assume Bush didn’t read, his favorite reading being the Bible, which isn’t bad but not enough if you’re the president of the US) Burns said the Russians were not at all on board with plans to include Ukraine and Georgia in NATO after the wave with Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic countries, and that they see it as a direct threat to their national security. Moreover, Burns predicted an invasion of Ukraine if… So in 2008 in Bucharest Bush proposes the inclusion of the two countries, Ukraine and Georgia, in NATO. Back then there was still one day set aside for a NATO-Russia conference at these NATO summits, so President Putin vehemently protested the plans the next day and said that if the West threatened Russia’s security in this way, he would take back Crimea, which is strategically essential.