Is This Part of the Fight in Ukraine Really About a Ukrane?

The question of a ukrane comes back to, i think, the economic aspect that we were discussing just before. Policy in ukraine pre 20 14 and leading up to the th throw of the yanakovitch government was to preclude any possibility of ukraine joining the urasian economic union. So is this part of this really about a essentially using ukraine as e as a battering ram to stop a rush ing economic development? And if the whiteand and the current white house would regard europe as a essentially collateral damage in the pursuit of that policy, acceptable collateral damage? Yes. I mean, geo politically, the us pulling ukraine out of r