So what changed my point of view? Russiagate. And that's your cardinal error. To come to an understanding of what's been happening to Ukraine -- you need to f

So what changed my point of view? Russiagate. And that's your cardinal error. To come to an understanding of what's been happening to Ukraine -- you need to focus on Ukraine, and its history, along with the history of the region. Especially in regard to what all of these countries have had to put up with for the past 400 years. Not the US, and its never-ending internal scandals and naval-gazing shenanigans. The idea that stuff like the Russiagate can begin to matter in comparison to what's actually happening in Ukraine ironically reflects a profound Western-centric bias. Your secondary error is to adopt as an axiom that "anti-Putin" and "pro-West" are on a common axis, and part of a zero-sum game. And hence to be anti-Putin is to be "pro-West", and a sucker for its propaganda. I also found out that it wasn't Russian operatives shooting at the Maidan protestors from the top of a building. It was neo Nazi Ukrainians. Except you didn't "find this out". Your read it on a blog somewhere, and it never occurred to you to dig behind this assertion and fact-check it. The West does Propaganda too. Then just ignore it, and use your brain instead. It's not that hard, really.