Well it is bad calculations and shitty luck. Really think about it. The US pretty much fucked itself when it comes to Syria. They won nothing, they had nothing to gain to begin with.
And not a same antology. Estonia never pretended to be some bigshot and very relevant country, unlike Russia, which in its attemts to be more relevant chooses to fuck up the countries around it aswell...for I dont know what reason tbh. Really compare here. Look at russias allies. All russias friends are basically some poor countries with extremely corrupt governments. And "corruption was raised extremely fast"? You have always been corrupt. ALWAYS. Eversince Russia stopped having a tzar, you have been nothing but always nonstop corrupt. You dont need USA and EUs involvement. Its in russian peoples blood to be corrupt. You are basically stealing gypsies with your own land.
If USA wouldn't win anything, why they started it then?
Really don't see, how Russia fucks other countries now, but I think sooner or later Russia will become more powerful, if the war will not start. At least this sanctions helped inner production. Maybe it will take many years like in China, but we have enough resources, and USSR helped Vietnam(agressor) to win the war against USA(peacemaker), so maybe not Russia but USSR helped)
About corruption I agree, don't know what to do with it, just changing government won't help anyhow.
Interresting Ukranians mentally the same as russians, maybe now they have more corruption then before, how will EU help them? How will EU change the mentallity?
Why do you think the people were happy and all requirements were considered? Typical russian imperialist scum: "everyone was happy in our empire, but than EU and USA ruined everything". Clearly the only people that were happy were russians. Not ukrainians.
I will remind you that russian side didn't sighned that document and was against it, but Yanikovich sighned it anyway. And people on a Maidan met it with triumph. Read that document first please.