Right, like the right to stage a coup because the Russians offered a better economic deal that was far more lenient than the harsh IMF and EU deal that gave the Ukrainians much better economic support than what the EU could have provided. The Ukrainian leadership chose a better economic deal while fully aware of the tensions between NATO and Russia. They operated in good faith. The Ukrainian nationalist does not operate in good faith, because like a lot of toxic nationality, they are irrational, and don’t make wise decisions. Ukraine was not going to be a sovereign country while being in the EU and NATO. Sovereignty and democracy or even prosperity is what Western Ukrainians wanted, they wanted to go with the EU, because they hated Russians, and NATO is arming nationalist who hate Russians and Russia. The Russians view that as an existential threat. Had the Ukrainians wisely became non-aligned, they would not be in this predicament today. The Russian tried economic sanctions, even an economic deal that was much better than the EU deal. For decades, since the after the dissolution of the USSR, Russia expressed security concerns with NATO expansion. The Ukrainians were lead to a destructive path by the US. The Russians simply wanted a neutral Ukraine, like the way Finland was neutral for decades after WWII, but no reasonable minds prevailed.