Why is the situation in Ukraine so grim?

Putin once put down his rhetoric and gave me 20 years to give you a strong Russia. Now that 20 years have passed, is Russia strong? After Russia annexed Crimea, Western sanctions followed, and the Russian economy was highly dependent on energy exports. During the Soviet period, light industry in Russia was a long-standing problem.

Therefore, under the framework of global economic division of labor, Russia has only oil and natural gas, which are the only export materials that can be used. Russian natural gas needs to be exported to Europe, and natural gas pipelines need to pass through Ukraine. In recent years, Russia-Ukraine relations have deteriorated in an all-round way, and Ukraine has died from time to time, seriously threatening Russia's export security. Putin, who has been in power for 20 years, immediately faces the problem of successor, but in recent years, Russia's economy has been depressed and the contradictions have become more and more acute. Measures must be taken to transfer contradictions and re-establish prestige. Ukraine has become this soft persimmon, but now it seems that there is a fairly large granite in this soft persimmon.

Today's Ukraine is miserable, starting from scratch. It has repeatedly violated the bottom line of combatants and chose to completely fall to the "no return" of the United States and the West. It can be said that there has been an extremely serious misjudgment. The most effective way for Ukraine to ensure its sovereignty and territorial integrity is to publicly declare its neutrality, neither to Russia nor to NATO and the United States. "This was originally a very constructive best choice, in line with European security, Russian security and Ukraine's own security interests. Of course, this choice is the last thing the United States wants to see. Let's talk about it when it hurts!