Never have. Z cancelled elections (7-1/2 years now) and ended the free press. He is evil. _______________________________________________ Timeline to the War in Ukraine: 1990: George Soros establishes his Ukrainian branch of the (later named) International Renaissance Foundation (IRF)—in Kyiv. The Soviet Union was dissolved the following year. 1996-1999: Bill Clinton campaigned on expanding NATO east of united Germany (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland) – joined NATO in 1999 - violating Secretary of State James Baker’s pledge to Gorbachev not to expand NATO “one inch to the east.” 2000 June: Putin asks Clinton about Russia joining NATO at the summit in Moscow. Initially Clinton reportedly stated “why not” or “interesting”. 2002 November: NATO invited seven more Eastern European countries to join: Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. 2007 February: Munich Security Conference: Putin tells the West the “unipolar solution” will never work, that NATO cannot expand infinitely, and there can never be a system where international law is optional for the enforcer class and compulsory for everyone else. By this time, the West forgot every assurance made after the Warsaw Pact dissolved. 2007 July: Arseniy Yatsenyuk establishes the Open Ukraine Foundation for which the initial key goal was to build Ukraine's good name and support public diplomacy across the world. (See 22 Feb 2014). 2008 April: NATO’s Bucharest summit. George W. Bush put Ukraine and Georgia on an “immediate path to NATO.” 2008: Bill Burns ambassador to Russia, sent a memo to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice: “Nyet means nyet.” Across the board the Russian political class said Ukraine is the reddest of red lines. 2014 February 22: With Sochi Winter Olympics underway, Team Obama toppled the democratically elected government of Ukraine’s pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych and was replaced with Arseniy Yatsenyuk (of Open Ukraine). Rooftop snipers killed both protestors & police, forcing elected president Yanukovych to flee. In response to Yanukovych’s downfall, Putin stepped up Russian support for Russian-speaking separatist rebels in the Donbass, while US accelerates its efforts to arm and train the Ukraine army. 2014 March 18: Russia takes back Crimea after loaning it to Ukraine for 70 years (Russia gave Crimea to Ukraine in 1954). 2014 May 2: Massacre of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in Odessa by thugs bussed in from Kyiv. They set fire to the city’s Trade Unions House. 48 people died that day; 42 were killed, bludgeoned or burned alive. 2 May 2014 became the point of no return in the Donbass crisis. 2015 February 11: Putin and then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko meet with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Minsk, Belarus. [Minsk accords] The leaders agreed to a deal that would have ended fighting in eastern Ukraine - granted autonomy to the Russian-speaking Donbass, but successive Ukrainian governments refused to implement the accord. German Chancellor Merkel admitted that Minsk was a stall tactic to allow the buildup of Ukraine’s army to NATO standards. 2016 January 14: Under pressure from the Pentagon, Congress removed a ban on funding Neo-Nazis [in Ukraine] from its year-end spending bill. 2016 December 31, New Year’s Eve, 20 days before the incoming Trump admin, Lindsey Graham with a bi-partisan group of US Senators visited Ukrainian troops on the civil war LOC, encouraging them to take the war to Russia: "We have your back…" 2021 December 17: Team Biden rejects Putin’s proposed mutual security accords that would have left “neutral” Ukraine intact. 2022 February 18: During Winter Olympics in China, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) documented that Ukraine ramped up cease fire violations along the civil war LOC - from Luhansk to Right-Sector controlled Mariupol. 2022 February 19: At the Munich Security Conference, Zelensky said Ukraine will get and deploy nuclear missiles. Further, US vice-president Kamala Harris stated “If Russia further (she never defined this word) invades Ukraine, the United States, together with our Allies and partners, will impose significant and unprecedented economic costs. (Applause.)” She says nothing of the previous Ukraine transgressions. 2 days later, Ukraine invades Russia. (ed: go figure) 2022 February 20: On 60 Minutes, on the final day of the Olympics in China, Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba said: “UKRAINE WILL NEVER HONOR THE MINSK CEASE FIRE.” Kamala Harris and the USA say nothing. 2022 February 21: Russia captured a Ukrainian soldier, killed five others as UKRAINE INVADED RUSSIA at Rostov, Russia. Russia recognizes the breakaway Donbass and Luhansk Republics. 2022 February 24: Russia launches SMO with 90,000 troops – not a "full scale invasion." Russia intervened to protect the ethnic Russians living in the civil-war-torn Donbass.