Russia and Ukraine

[Leonardo17]

Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych

He stole anywhere from 40 to 70 Billion $ from the Ukrainian state. Its still not clear how his son managed to accumulate 500mio during Yanukovychs reign.
Judging by his level of corruption and going by Bels argument that russian invasion was aok, because ...corruption.....well Russia should have invaded by 2014.
Why didnt Russia invade and "fix" Ukraine in 2014, but just annexed Crimea?

Is it probably because its more about grabbing land than about "helping fellow russians"?  

   This Maidan Revolution or Revolution of Dignity that happened in February 2014 seems to have changed everything for Ukraine and Russia as well. I think it was the beginning of the end for puppet governments in Belarus and Ukraine and that seems to have made Mr. Putin very angry.
   Before that era, I didn’t really know much about Ukraine. I didn’t even know its geographical location. My perception of Ukraine than was not so different from Putin’s perception now. In my mind it was just another ex-Soviet country. Yet when the war broke out I knew they were going to show at least some degree of resistance. Because I know that ideologically, these break-away old socialist republic tend to be quite nationalistic and because of the soviet heritage, soldiers in their military units are usually well trained with a degree of combat readiness.
   Yet, I find this issue to be very interesting in terms of the characteristics of the times we are living. To me it’s almost like a new season of my favorite TV series (without meaning that I am downplaying the gravity of the situation that is affecting real human lives). And things seem to be quite complex already (at least for an ordinary / non-political scientist mind like mine). So in my mind, there can’t be any place for unreliable sources of information or disinformation as we call it. If one goes into disinformation, or poor sources of information (anything other than most trustworthy, professional and independent media sources across the world, who present verifiable information in a clearly understandable and rational manner) you won’t understand anything actually. This new mess they have created is pure insanity with a rational face. That’s how I am defining it.