@herag even back then euromaidan felt like a clandestine operation from what i could gather here.
i think my "ukraine government is evil" moment was the moment when men couldn't leave the country anymore. it's evil to force anyone to die for what effectively are oligarchs.
despite the war being an evil action, i too think that russia has shown great restraint in the past. if anyone would have treated a major western country like the west has russia over the last decade, we'd long have ww3 by now, given the psychos in power here.