Here’s one point that gets little notice about Ukraine.
And why weak leaders and leadership always causes problems.

When the Soviet Union collapsed in ’91, Ukraine became a sovereign country again, and in return for handing over their nuclear weapons, accepted security deals from Russia and the United States.
At the end of the Cold War, Ukraine had the third biggest nuclear arsenal on Earth with over 5,000 nuclear warheads.

The 1994 agreement, known as the Budapest Memorandum had the U.S., U.K. and Russia guarantee Ukraine’s security for the nation signing on to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and giving up their nukes.

However, when Russia ‘annexed’ Crimea in 2014, anyone with 2 working brains cells knew that Putin’s word meant nothing.

Ukraine demanded the former Soviet Union and America respect its sovereignty and existing borders, but 28 later? With a senile puppet sitting in the oval office, and his lackies more concerned with gender equity and covid mandate BS, than energy independence, we get crap like this again.