Wassiliboyd schrieb am 12.06.2024 11:16:
Richtig. Die USA haben sich dann dank einer auf nicht ganz freiwilliger Basis "runderneuerten" Regierung in Kiew einen neuen Vertragspartner an Land gezogen. Zufälle gibts !
Ja, die bösen, bösen Amis!
In November 2013 Yanukovych accepted an invitation to the EU summit in Vilnius, where he was expected to sign the association agreement but abruptly refused to do so. Speaking to his own entourage, he explained the about-face as the result of an exchange with Putin, who had allegedly told him that he would never allow the European Union or NATO to share a border with Russia. If Yanukovych signed the EU agreement, Putin threatened to occupy the Crimea and a good part of southeastern Ukraine, including the Donbas. Yanukovych, visibly shaken, decided to abandon the EU association agreement.
Serhii Plokhy: The Russo-Ukrainian War. The Return of History. W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2023, ISBN 978-1-324-05119-0, S. 94–95, https://books.google.de/books?id=H2F_EAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PT1: