Putin's Diplomatic Initiative on Security Matters

In 2008, George W. Horscht announced that at the Bucharest NATO Summit, we would commit to NATO enlarging to Ukraine and to Georgia. This really freaked out the Russians because if you look at the map, what we were literally doing was surrounding Russia in the Black Sea. And when protests erupted against Yanukovych in late 2013, there was Victoria,. Newland, flying back and forth nonstop to Kiev to help orchestrate what turned out to be a violent overthrow of Yanukovych in February 2014. That's when the war began.