Ukraine is of serious strategic value to Russia.
Ukraine has no strategic value to the USA.
True, but the outrage is far from being only in the US. If anything, European countries seem to be taking point on this. They are rather pissed that a democracy is under attack, and acting accordingly. For example: NATO couldn't get Germany to meet it's military commitments for decades, Putin got them there in 72 hours. Even formerly neutral countries like Sweden and Finland are sending weapons.
All I can figure is the globalists have decided it's time to destroy Russia. That is the only reason I can imagine for promoting EU and NATO membership for a country that is so crucial to Russia strategically. Putin has made it clear for at least a decade that there would be a military response to any attempt to bring Ukraine into NATO. This leads me to believe the globalists wanted war in Ukraine as a pretense to destroy Russia financially.
I don't believe that there is some shadowy consortium of global governance that controls the world. It's reading order and coherence into a place where there is none. I think that all of these governments are independent, voluntarily form alliances and treaties, and act in their own self interest.
The countries that border Russia are looked at by Russia much like we hold our Monroe Doctrine. NATO troops in a bordering country will not be tolerated, anymore than we would tolerate Chinese troops stationed in Canada or Russian troops in Mexico.
Agreed, they aren't happy about bordering countries joining an enemy military alliance, or their people and culture moving further towards western democratization. I'm sure both powers were and are attempting to sway those people towards their point of view. Maybe this is americentrism, but I think these people - who know what the russian system looks like from the soviet days - are moving further westward of their own volition. The system offers more opportunities, wealth and freedoms. There's a reason the DDR had to build a wall to keep people in.
Putin is not a madman, he is not unstable. He is going to take over all of Ukraine, probably wreck the infrastructure possibly giving some of it back, but only with ironclad guarantees of Ukraine neutrality going forward.
Well, he certainly seems to have miscalculated, unless his plan was to get embarrassed on the world stage, unite Europe, strengthen NATO, push neutral countries towards it, crater his own economy, restart an arms race, restart the cold war, and create anti-Russian sentiment globally.