I actually posted something some time ago about US involvement and Interest in Moldova and what it gains out of it. Written, not from Russia with love, but an American Think Tank discussing Eastern Europe following recent Russian actions.
Short of it was:
Military Base for NATO. That's only a RECENT thing though.
EDIT:
Here we go:
http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RS21981.pdf
Lets actually CHECK how much those countries mattered to the west (sorry for the affected, no offence intended):
1. Moldova - got fucked in the ass, whole world gave zero fucks, russian imported and left their "peacekeepers" there, time for their stay is over, rest of world - still zero fucks given, Moldova left fucked in the ass with a frozen conflict. Tough - but really - nobody cared. Nada.
2. Georgia - russia provoked for a LENGHTY period of time, morons on Georgian side responded with an attack, russians managed to shoot down their own plane, Georgia got fucked in the ass, two "wanabee-separatist" regions pending to join russia, rest of the world - "very worried".
Ukraine - comparatively MUCH MORE of a reaction. Sanctions and all the lost money can be counted as being indicators of important. Why? Pick your poison on your own. Again - I don't see US involved a lot, as EU is suffering the brunt of the costs... EU being a sleeping carebear... if russia managed to wake it up - its a good indicator of the scale of bullshit that putler is pulling out of his ass.
Dave you absolutely deny the Donbass opinion and Crimenian one, that was biggest fault of your lovable government, you prefer not to speak with bydlo but kill them. That what is happening there
Why do you deny the oppinion of Ukrainians as expressed in free and democratic parliamentary and presidential ellections? As expressed in truly rare show of national spirit during the maidan?
I can tell you why the oppinion of minority brainwashed sheeple should be
ignoreddisregarded (a more apt word I'd say, ignoring is bad): because they were brainwashed by your countries media. And that media is waging war on Ukraine at the request of putler. Thats why the oppinion of minority in this case should be
ignored disregarded and handled later via different ways.