Obama’s CIA coup in Kiev in 2014 toppled Viktor Yanukovych. Poroshenko's regime (2014-2019) began attacking Donbas, the ethnic Russian region historically close to Russia. After 2014, Ukraine turned against Russia, the Orthodox faith, and the shared history of the two peoples. Campaigning as the "peace candidate" in 2019, promising to unite the ethnically divided former Soviet Republic, Zelensky won a landslide election. Once elected, however, under the thumb of Biden and the Banderites, he sacrificed his country in the NATO war against Russia. Two years later, December 2021, Biden rejected Putin’s proposed mutual security accord that would have left “neutral” Ukraine intact. Biden told Putin, “Russia doesn’t say who can join NATO.” Once again, as in Minsk I and II, legitimate Russian security concerns were brushed aside. According to ex-Biden adviser Amanda Sloat, senior director for Europe on the National Security Council, #Ukraine could have avoided war in December 2021 with one step: “Ukrainian declaration of neutrality,” she said, “would have prevented the destruction and loss of life."