Russia Ukraine war, page-2122

"Sovereign nations have made their own choice"

Before colour revolution or after ? You make this big deal about "Sovereign nations". but once a country joins NATO, they enter a military pact with the major imperialist powers the US and Germany and lose whatever "sovereignty" they supposedly had.

"there was no realistic likelihood of Ukraine being accepted into NATO anytime soon"

Then this whole mess could have easily been avoided by Biden and Blinken simply agreeing to sit down with Putin and Lavrov and coming to a negotiated agreement over the status of Ukraine. Which they arrogantly rejected out of hand.

And the other reason your statement is BS is because Ukraine was already being armed, trained and militarised by US/NATO countries in preparation for a US/NATO war against Russia without even being in NATO.