Putin is personally corrupt, t.
You don't understand Russia.....it's your world-view in question here. They are still in the throes of recovery from a century of communism compared to us who are about to recover from eight years of it. Putin knows Trump ain't the patsy he's found Barry to be (who hasn't?) the damage can be repaired. Russia has it's own agenda and we have to abide by that if we expect the same. They have too many nukes for us to try to push around and I want them on our side when China decides to take over the planet.
Not too many Americans understand Russia: they only "know" about Russia from their Media, which has been lying about Russia since 2008 and during the last few years hasn't basically said a word of truth about Russia. Bush and Obama must have been puppets for the same bosses/globalistse since they basically have been doing same things in foreign policy.
Harlan K. Ullman, a shrewd American analyst, once noted that there used to be two parties in America – one had a conscience but no brains, and the other always had brains but no conscience. Now, Ullman notes,
we have two completely identical parties with no brains and no conscience, and he questions the meaning of their existence.
America Forever?
Now about Ukraine. Crimea and the Eastern part of Ukraine were belonging to Russia since 988, long before anybody has even heard about USA. When Ukraine became "independent" in 1991, it basically annexed Russian lands, but Western world has not said a word about it, so why it's raising such a hell now, when Crimea voted with over 90% and came back to its mother Russia and when Eastern Ukraine doesn't want to do anything with Ukraine either? It's just shows some Americans big ignorance...
Besides, since the coup, arranged by the "leaders" from Western world, Biden, McCain, Nuland. Soros &Co (not Russia!), Ukraine has quickly turned into a sh*thole. They can't afford to pay utilities, they have salaries lower than in some African countries (and even those miserable salaries are delayed to be paid for several months!), a lot of people can't afford to eat enough and have to literally eat only bread and water, the crime level raised several times, and on the top of everything Nazis are breeding like rabbits and glorified by the government.
IMF’s mission chief for Ukraine, Ron Van Rooden: It will take Ukraine a generation to come near the Central European economy
Ukraine Needs Generation to Catch Up With Central European Economy - IMF Mission
Politician makes claims of vast corruption in Ukraine
Investigation Uncovers Poroshenko's, Allies' Spanish Coastal Villas
United States, can’t continue to shovel money into a
corrupt swamp unless the government starts shaping the democratic rule that Ukrainians demanded in their protests.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/01/opinion/ukraines-unyielding-corruption.html?_r=0
Over $12 billion
disappears from Ukraine’s budget every year, and global graft watchdog Transparency International
ranks the country as Europe’s most corrupt.
Why Ukraine Must Outsource Its Fight Against Corruption
Bloomberg:
Ukraine Is in Danger of Becoming a Failed State
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-11
The incoming Ukrainian president will have to turn some attention to history, because the outgoing one has just made a hero of a long-dead Ukrainian fascist.
A Fascist Hero in Democratic Kiev
The Times: Kyiv allows torture and runs secret jails, says UN
History of Ukraine Told by Assassinated Ukrainian Writer Oles Buzina
CIS-EMO political analyst of an International Monitoring Organization, Stanislav Byshok :
So, what is Ukraine, really? And when did it begin?
The truth about Ukraine: Byshok's lecture at Brown University - Fort Russ
Modern Ukraine is 25 yrs old, but is it actually independent?