Check out the Hamilton Spectator for an honest appraisal of what really happened with the uprising in Kiev.  The Americans of course were heavily involved, even Canada did a bit to help the "rebels".  Ukraine was promised as a buffer zone.  And there is much more if one wants to delve deeply into it.  I agree Ms.Freeland is too emotionally involved to be in charge.  What exactly, precisely,  is the Russian threat?  Obviously NATO is the aggressor, just look at the military map of the area surrounding Russian border.