Where did Putin say Ukraine is a "red line" before that crisis. Just a reminder: Their elected president rejected a trade agreement with the EU. His people didn

Where did Putin say Ukraine is a "red line" before that crisis. Just a reminder: Their elected president rejected a trade agreement with the EU. His people didn't like that, and coupled with lots of grief about extreme corruption and other things, things escalated. The US or the EU did not intervene at all, whereas all the invading and conquering forces where Russian... The western governments also didn't want to topple Assad. But they also can't be opposed to deposing him, because that would contradict all democratic values: Assad and his father are mass murderers who rule their country dictatorily in a reign of terror. Regime change was never a goal in Libya. If at any point Gaddafi had just stopped shelling civilian settlements, the bombardment would have been stopped, and the rebels wouldn't have had a snow flake's chance in hell of deposing him. The UN resolution was followed to the letter. Gaddafi's stupidity is a whole different matter.