The United States started the war when the NeoCons and Obamunists alike supported the Euromaidan color revolution which overthrew President Yanukovych and replaced him with Poroshenko, who then began killing his own citizens in the Donbass region. All Ukraine had to do was stop butchering the Russians in the East and not park NATO weapons in their country in violation of the Minsk Accords.
The United States started the war when the NeoCons and Obamunists alike supported the Euromaidan color revolution which overthrew President Yanukovych and replaced him with Poroshenko, who then began killing his own citizens in the Donbass region. All Ukraine had to do was stop butchering the Russians in the East and not park NATO weapons in their country in violation of the Minsk Accords.
The people of Crimea wanted to join Russian federation and had even referendum.