It's all the Russians wanted from Ukraine, too, but our glorious leaders couldn't stop financing coups and installing leaders more favorable to them.

Some populist leftist on Jimmy Dore had a fairly brilliant comment.

There are no coups in the US because the US does not have an American embassy.

The USSR was an ideological, expansionist globalist power that more readily resembles the monstrosity that has subsumed the West in the past couple of decades.

George Kennan, the architect of the Cold War, said the following:

“Don’t people understand? Our differences in the Cold War were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime. And Russia’s democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we’ve just signed up to defend from Russia. Of course, there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.”

Unfortunately, his differences may have been with communist totalitarianism, but American differences were always about Realpolitik.