The Ukraine is not in NATO ... not quite (which is why all of this is going on in the first place) and it may not be legal for us to be training Ukranian soldiers on our territory without some sort of declaration against Russia. That's a guess. The Russians no doubt view the Ukranians as traitors for trying to join NATO.
OH Comrade Curious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You grow more weirdly CURIOUS by the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHY IN HELL would Russians think of Ukrainians as TRAITORS???????????????????????????
At various times Ukraine has been an INDEPENDENT COUNTRY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ukraine has been independent before and it is indepentant now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And will remain independent just so long as it does not have to rely on Cdn LIE-berals for aid against its old enemy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suggest you go read a little history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe a little light reading about the Holodomor............................
the Ukrainian Holocaust in which Stalin DELIBERATELY STARVED 8 million Ukrainians to death in the 1930`s because the Ukrainians were refusing Soviet orders to set up Collective Farms as Stalin wanted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Russians and Ukrainians have a LONG HISTORY of warfare and hate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
During the Soviet era - Russians made systematic efforts to BURY Ukrainian language and culture -as they did with all other Russian occupied territories such as the Baltic States!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In most of the Russian occupied territories- at least 25 percent of the population is ethnic Russian because Moscow BRIBED Russians to go live in the occupied territories in order to BLUR the ethnic lines and confuse the borders!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AS for Ukraine joining NATO...................it was Bill Clinton who killed that idea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The former Soviet KGB types like Yuri Andorpov who took over Russia after Gorbachev DID NOT WANT NATO forces sitting in the Crimea!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So the Soviets protested to Clinton and Ukraine was refused entry to NATO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
AND THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN OUR WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Soviet Union is GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But the Russian Bear snarls on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The ONLY THING preventing Ukraine from being returned to its former SLAVE STATUS is Russian uncertainty about how NATO generally and United States specifically would react to such NAZI style aggression!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the reason why Trump was ANGRY with German Chancellor Merkel for doing the multi billion dollar deal with Russia to buy Soviet natural gas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The German deal is giving Putin the hard currency he needs to make trouble in Ukraine, in Syria, and in Venezuela!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!