Since there's more than one Ukraine thread, I'm not sure if this is the one I added a comment to several days ago or not. My point was that the leaked conversation...which has gone almost completely unreported in MSM between Victoria Nuland and the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine, gave us some candid insight into the scheming and plotting against the Yanukovitch Government at the time. Like it or not, he was the elected president of the Ukraine, who was removed by mob action...sort of like Morsi in Egypt. From my own limited awareness of the goings on in the Ukraine, Russia is the country with a vested interest in what goes on there...not the U.S.! Russia has that large naval base in Crimea...an autonomous territory that is mostly Russian and was added to the Ukraine by the Soviet Government in the 1950's.
If we can make a quick comparison: look at how the U.S. is propping up a ruthless potentate in the U.S. client state of Bahrain....a despot who even sent military forces into hospitals to shoot doctors and patients...without getting his name added to the list of bad actors in the ME and subject for regime change. Why? Because he gets the oil out of the ground and to western markets, and he hosts the largest U.S. naval base in the ME. What would the U.S. be willing to do to maintain the continued operation of that base? I would guess, just about anything...legal, illegal...at any cost. And yet, we're supposed to take idiot U.S. warhawks and chicken hawks seriously, as they keep rattling the cage of the beast who still has about 8000 nuclear warheads! The Neocon warhawks, who are so addicted to money from military procurements, would risk nuclear annihilation, to make a few more bucks selling their war toys and finding new wars to justify their existence and continued production!