Timothy Snyder:
"The notion that there should be a peace process regarding #Ukraine was simply a pretext to begin relations with Russia. That would be consistent with all of the publicly available facts. Blaming Ukraine for the failure of a process that never existed then becomes the pretext to extend the American relationship with #Russia... Yelling at the Ukrainian president was most likely the theatrical climax to a Putinist maneuver that was in the works all along."