>>20288897#1. Thinking cozying up to a neoliberal, atheist, corrupt, warmongering country on the other side of the planet would benefit them more than just sticking with the corrupt country right on their border that shares a common language, ethnicity, history, culture and religion.
#2. Not balancing the power between two corrupt superpowers and doing what's in their own best interest.
#3. Allowing the USA to fund and arm anti-russian extremists, which led to a revolution and then the Russians arming separatists.
Anyone that claims Ukraine is "winning" in any sense is a literal brainwashed coping retard. They've lost control of 20% of their country, hundreds of thousands of dead young men, millions of civilians have fled, their infrastructure is fucked, their economy is essentially destroyed and is now under the control of a foreign power. They have become a vassal state of the USA.
They failed in every single way possible. What they should've done is just adopt open trade policies with the East and the West, instead of enacting policies that favored one country over another.
