Russian Support for Separatist Movement in Eastern Ukraine

The united states have been running ukraine as like a colonial puppet since we installed that government in 2014. The view of the russians has been exactly the same view that the united states has of cuba and through decades of behavior which is of course it's in our interest what happens right on the other side of our border. How do you reconcile those views unless you want to say which is at least honest well the us is good and therefore can do whatever it wants and russia is bad and therefore it can't? We're not going to let nato in the united states run wild in ukraine. And they look over at germany run by fanatical warm