Here is one view of US policy and the Ukraine. Draw your own conclusions.

No Dog in This Fight
by Doug Bandow
09.09.2008
Washington has become an ugly place. Eight years of bitter Republican attacks on Bill and Hillary Clinton have been followed by eight years of bitter Democratic attacks on George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. But this venom cannot compare to the tidal wave of political hatred that has recently overwhelmed Ukraine’s capital of Kiev.....
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Doug Bandow is the Robert A. Taft Fellow at the American Conservative Defense Alliance. He is a former Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and the author of several books, including Foreign Follies: America’s New Global Empire (Xulon).
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=19810

See also DB's wiki bio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Bandow