Second, companies in this increasingly autocratic and hostile US control every major digital platform that Europeans use to debate and share news, with the exception of TikTok, which is Chinese. Even Europe’s news organisations rely on Google and other US advertising technology companies for online revenue. Trump can humiliate or cripple the oligarchs who control these companies.
euromaidan was a coup.
freikorps in ukraine were attacking the ethnic russians in the east for years before when your goldfish memory thinks the conflict started.