Wow, this reeks of bias.<p>Putin has done a lot of good for post-soviet Russia. Russia in the 90's was full of murder and unpoliced brutality that people who grew up like us couldn't imagine.<p>the EU is not facing a threat, the US was- the US has funneled millions in trying to get Ukraine away from Russia and has succeeded, what they didn't count on was the fact that the extremists that were appointed power would galvanise Russia by outlawing Russian as a spoken/written language, this, of course prompted action because a _lot_ of Russians live in Crimea.<p>Russia has enough to worry about on it's own, it's not interested in expansion, every move we've seen them make has been to protect it's people from what it see's as harm.<p>Now, every time this topic comes up I'm chastised for being biased myself, but I very much see the US and Russia as two sides of the same coin, except we allow America to brainwash us and forbid Russia from telling it's side of the story.<p>Edit: My family are mostly from Eastern Ukraine, so I know what they tell me- there's no "Russian Troops" although they really wanted support- there are some supplies (water, generators etc; because the Ukraine government turned off the water and power) the people you see are using anything they could find- raided military bases and stolen gear.