This gives too much credit to the Maidan "revolution" which was turned into a coup by the U.S. and its funding and support of literal neo-Nazis. But it at least does so to good effect: if you give so much credit to that act and support it, then it is utterly hypocritical not to also support the autonomy of regions like Crimea and Donbas, and there are very good arguments to that effect in the article based on the nature of international and constitutional law.
The analysis in general is one done from an unabashed anti-war stance, and one which centers both the value of human life and the self-determination of Ukrainian people.
Found this through https://usrussiaaccord.org/ which was recommended as a responsible aggregator of reporting, analysis, and opinion by Stephen Cohen (an expert on Russia and U.S.-Russian affairs) prior to his death in 2019.
True. I took that sentence as kind of sarcastic given the context (just after talking about being lied to by the U.S. for 20 years). But maybe I'm wrong. Certainly I don't think any of the lies of those mentioned here stack up all that well to the likes of "vials of anthrax" and "aluminum tubes"....