Ukraine had both Neocons and Democrats pushing money for them to join NATO something awful.  It is common speculation here that "ifs, buts, and would've beens" for globalists meant further conflict up the Eastern/Northern Russian border.  That was their long term game plan... influence, make money, eventually then make war (which is another $$$ salvo) over what is commonly misconstrued as an unimportant, non majorly populated portion of Europe due to minority Russian civilian population i.e. here in the Baltics it is barely 20%... similar to Mexicunt demographics in the mid-western US.    In truth, Ukraine has much more Russian ancestry and alignment.  The people voted... yet their votes went unheard.  But, Soros paid both rival groups to protest at Maidan... alongside strong armed Western backed anti-partisan elected govt.  This same tactic was used to a lesser extent in Charlottesville when that fat tub of lard had a heart attack while getting bumped by the panicked driver.  Both Antifa & the Spencer group were paid off to cause a newsworthy disturbance.  Maidan teaches us that all it will take is a well placed sniper shot to bring about an uprising..... their dirty tactics work when playing on the emotions of the nationalist populace.