russia had paid for his political rise and for his political party. they had worked to install him in power. they totally controlled him. he was their guy. that was how russia controlled ukraine. they controlled the ukrainian president. they installed him in power and told him what to do and he did it. and russia, of course, didn t want ukraine to have better economic ties to the west. they didn t want ukraine to have any ties to the west. they wanted ukraine to only be tied to russia. and so when ukraine had the opportunity to sign on to this pro-european trade deal, russia didn t want him to do it and russia s guy in ukraine, this very corrupt, very compromised pro-russian president said he wouldn t sign that trade deal with europe. he said instead he would sign a knew one with russia. people in ukraine did not want that. they wanted to stop looking east. they wanted to look west instead. so in response they started protesting. in november of 2013. and a few months into it,
he was a lieutenant in the navy with nuclear sub marine experience. he was one of the only men on the entire planet at the time who had the skill set to develop this kind of a plan and to himself go down inside a melted down nuclear reactor. a young man from georgia. his name was james earl carter. he went by jimmy for short. before jimmy carter became president, before he became a politician of any kind, he was in the navy. the only american president to have graduated from the u.s. naval academy at annapolis. he served in the navy for seven years as a sub mariner. that is how he got chosen for the prestigious sub marine program. and how he ended up in command of the elite team that saved canada. this team that saved ontario from further nuclear disaster after the world s first full-scale nuclear reactor disaster. he himself spent 89 seconds.