Perhaps Russia should have kept its nose out of the Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.
Perhaps America should have done the same. America destabilised the Ukrainian elected government, and put its puppet in. America started the ball rolling.
Do not attempt to justify the seizing and outright annexation of the Crimea by blaming either the US or the West.
The history and developments of the Ukrainian revolution of 2014 (
2014 Ukrainian revolution - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia ) do not support your position in this.
The West - and, indeed, the US - certainly had a hand in the change of Ukrainian government, and were supportive of it, but were not primarily nor directly responsible.
The Ukrainians themselves hold primary and direct responsibility for their change of government.
Their President was subverted by the Russians to abandon the Ukraine's drift towards the EU and to begin a rapproachment with Russia.
The ethnic Ukrainian majority of the country knew that the Russians had subverted their head of state and they reacted violently to that corruption.
They then rid themselves of the traitor in their midst as soon as they thought it safe to do so.
The US, and The West in general, certainly encouraged and supported the Ukrainians in all of this, but they did not initiate the sequence.
Nor is the US - nor The West - responsible for the hatred and distrust of Russians, endemic within the Ukraine, amongst ethnic Ukrainians.
For that, we can thank centuries of Czarist Russian and Soviet Russian conquest and imperialism and colonization and genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Long, long,
long before The West had anything to do with this... hell, much of that enmity stretches far back into time, long before the US even
existed.
Nice try.