The US began turning Ukraine into a proxy state hostile to its Russia neighbor in 2004. The plan accelerated with escalating violence and tens of billion$ culminating with the coup in 2014. Then came the millionaire comedian:
Zelensky complicit in corporate takeover of Ukraine | MR Online
"'Your money is not charity, it’s an investment.'
"That’s what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in his address to the U.S. Congress while visiting Washington on Dec. 21...."
"The coup was orchestrated by Washington and used to select the future leadership of Ukraine; from that moment on, destroying a once-sovereign country and
replacing it with consecutive regimes of anti-Russian, pro-U.S. governments that were more than willing to honor the wishes of their U.S. masters: provoking war with Russia.
"Zelensky’s statement about 'an investment' must be seen in the context of the foreign investments that got a green light to sideline and impoverish the Ukrainian population after the coup in 2014.
"Some of those foreign investors were active shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union as well."
Many of the same western economic elites who became much richer by pillaging Russia in the 1990s have laid the groundwork for a similar looting in Ukraine today while never losing sight of their ultimate goal: