How the US checkmated Russia in Ukraine

Despite the “democracy and freedom” rhetoric and the Ukraine’s potential entry into the EU, the 2014 coup was also about preventing the economic integration of the Eurasian Union. This union, in time, could rival that of the EU. Russia spent 19 years n negotiations with the WTO to come to a fair consensus in regard to its various trade agreements, of which Ukraine was one of its main trading partners. Putin alluded to the potential economic reintegration of Ukraine and Russia back in 2010. However, all of the agreements went out the window, only to be replaced with US goods and services.