All of this has really opened up my eyes about what the EU has become. It's not just the USA driving this. EU is just as guilty, in relation to Ukraine. It's really breaking my heart. I can't deny that the EU has become a monster, and it's not just Ukraine but also Syria and Libya.

I really wanted to see the good in the EU, but it's getting harder and harder. I'm getting to the point that I am beginning to feel that I was wrong, when I was so pro EU back in the 90s. I guess it was disillusion with socialism (which I had more or less believed in with varying level of strength while growing up), and feeling that "Russia is a dump and the USSR was a hoax" (back in the 90s, that's how it seemed...) I've always been very suspicious against the US, so that ideology was never even on the agenda.
The EU and European unity was almost the last nice ideal left to believe in! Sadly it has become:

1) an US puppet,
2) a very un-democratic entity
3) a joke of a union - most Europeans simply don't feel any loyalty towards countries at the other end of the union. At the most, they feel some limited brotherhood with a couple of neighbours, and not even that is a given. There is no ethnic, religious, ideological or other relevant glue to keep the EU together.
4) The Euro wasn't properly managed and proved to be more than certain countries could responsibly handle. Some of the countries that were needed to make the Euro a success, refused to join it. Other countries that would like to use it, are not allowed.
5) We have first, second and third class European nations, one nation that doesn't want to be in the EU at all, and simply sabotages the positive projects.
6) The open borders, while lovely for regular people have also given non European economic migrants, opportunistic gypsies and all kinds of criminals free reign. I personally hated the border checks pre-EU but we might soon get to a point when they are the lesser of many evils. Some countries like the UK never scrapped it to begin with.

The EU is partly responsible for these lost lives in Ukraine. The EU has dangled a carrot under the noses of Ukrainians who obviously deluded themselves about what their realistic prospects are, in relation to the EU.
They showeved attention, money and support over the various coup makers, leaders etc in connection with the coup d'etat.
Normally they wouldn't give time of the day to Ukraine.

They will not sort out the Ukraine's economy in a positive way, they'll turn it into a new market for EU junk products, a sweatshop location and haven for shady EU companies that can't operate above the light in Germany or the UK, similar to Romania. The Ukraine will be used as a pawn in the game against Russia, similar to Poland and the Baltics. All the while the well educated emigrate. I think the Ukrainians will fined. Any profits generated in Ukraine will leave the country, probably un-taxed.

I have no realistic idea whether Russia treated Ukraine better, but I would have thought so, and that Ukraine was on a much more equal and favoured position in relation to Moscow compared with Brussels.