at early 2014, thigns weren't so bad. russia was busying in hosting winter olympics. ukriane preisdnet was just finished visitng china, like syria, there's lots of probelms but alos lots of hopes. after successfully cohosting euro cup 2012 (check the beautiful kharkiv airport then and what is left now). just suppose ukraine was focusing on economy instead of politics, like china, forget pro=west or pro east, who cna do business that is all we care, just imagine what if ukraine followed on those agrements signed with china, those fertile black soil, those ex-soviet tech, not to mention those famous beauties, and what china could offer ukraine in return...
thanks to obama (mccain likely wqould do the same though, saving nato is priority), it's all not to be.