The point I find myself making to skeptical western friends is that even if this revolution is 100% about joining the EU, which is 90% isn’t, but even if it were, it’s still in the self-interest of Ukrainians.
Just compare the standard of living in Ukraine / Belarus to the Baltic countries – Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia.
A Belorussian fried:
Americans don’t understand that given a choice between American empire and Russian, American looks more pleasant at least they don’t pray to atomic rockets sounds surrealistic, but Russian church regularly bless rockets, accidentally called “Satan”.
http://censor.net.ua/news/98327/patriarh_kirill_blagoslovil_atomnyyi_podvodnyyi_raketnyyi_kreyiser
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if some Church did pray to atomic weapons in the US, but it’d be some outlier church, not the official state one.