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After the Soviet collapse, Ukraine existed as a poor backwater in Russia’s orbit, causing no trouble for anyone — except itself, due to world-beating corruption — until the USA started a push to include it in NATO.
Source: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/11/james-howard-kunstler/the-four-wars/
He described Ukraine’s east as Russia’s “historic territories,” adding that Moscow conceded their loss after the 1991 Soviet collapse but had to act to protect Russian speakers there.
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/9418321/russia-ukraine-war-vladimir-putin-2014/