Having grown up in the UK and then worked in Eastern Europe, I am aware of how people in the former Soviet staes were tricked into believing in a mirage of so-called 'freedoms' in the name of 'democracy'.
This writer is brave enough to try and look beyond the obvious.
https://medium.com/the-shortform/oliver-stones-ukraine-on-fire-a32e8cf2a7e8
Twenty years of broken promises by NATO has resulted in Ukraine being manipulated into becoming another Afghanistan. Ordinary people suffer on both sides while the rhetoric-spewing Anglo-American Empire is licking its gluttonous mouth in anticipation of PROFITEERING .