Finally, somebody who gets it! The United States CIA and the European Union instigated and funded a coup in Ukraine, thus forcing Putin to protect his Black Sea Naval port in Crimea. He even built an enormous bridge to keep Russia connected to Crimea, then the US upped the pressure again, and Putin saw what was going on, then decided to take more land to get a land-bridge to Crimea. Like I said, this was all pretty predictable to anyone with half a brain. Now we are in another Proxy-War of our own making, and it is going nowhere fast. Lots of dead people, billions of dollars wasted, and nothing to show for it all, add this to the many other wasteful proxy wars started by the US CIA. If anything, the CIA should be designated a terrorist organization, defunded, and its higher ranking officials imprisoned.