Or one can claim that there was no problem in Europe, and how France, Germany and all of EU were all cool with Ukraine and Russia and the status quo before US decided to issue their freedom coup cookies in 2014. Then you yell but what about freedoms (exclusively to non US aligned governments), and we're back to the logic of how "freedom" can conveniently be used as justification for US to start any war it wishes. I mean US gets to undercut competition from EU, EU becomes fully reliant on US, with a possibility of collapsing Russia, it's a win/win/win. If that doesn't work or Russia just ends up winning too fast, rinse and repeat send freedom cookies (with weapons) to Moldova/Belarus/Kazakhstan/Georgia/Taiwan (you know cause Americans just care so much about spreading freedoms to those countries)