LordsFire
Internet Wizard
Moscow would never accept NATO troops possibly being within minutes flight time from Moscow; we saw what happened with the missiles we placed in Turkey that precipitated the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It's ~350 miles from Latvia (a NATO member) to Moscow. Ukraine to Moscow is ~270. The difference there in travel time for missiles is seconds. Do some bloody research before you repeat nonsensical claims like this.
No, because they're not a sovereign nation. Not since the coup in 2014, and the ongoing civil war that resulted from it.
I have yet to see you present a single shred of evidence that this is true. From what I've seen, it's more likely that the government before the 2014 coup was a Russian puppet government, but I know my familiarity with Ukraine is sparse enough that I might be misreading the situation. If you'd actually present some evidence, I might be persuaded you're right here.
We know that either way the Ukrainian government was very corrupt both before and after the coup, though whether it was worse before or after I don't know.