If not for the decisions made by the Obama administration and the EU to overthrow the Yanukovych government in 2014, todays Ukraine would have cheaper assured gas, a potentially thriving economy and culture, and Crimea and Donbass would still be 100% part of the country.
The choice of Alaska for the Trump-Putin meeting shows a willingness to discuss serious bilateral relations, apart from the EU, which has bogged the U.S. down in the Ukraine war.
Lavrov, Ushakov, Belousov, Siluanov, and Dmitriev joined the Russian delegation at the summit in Alaska, the Kremlin reported.
How can we be independent when we don’t have borders with any other state?