Zelenskyi being a puppet of the west is just something Russia says to justify their actions and there isn’t much to back it up, and I see no correlation with ”the west getting monetary aid”. Who exactly? And how?
And even if it was true, anyone would rather be a puppet of the west than Russia. It’s a fact that since Yanukovych got removed from presidency (after heavy protests and revolution since he was Putin’s lapdog and a Soviet idealist who wanted to keep Ukraine as a puppet of Russia) the corruption level has decreased and Ukraine had a rise in the index of democracy and started to develop into a modern western country. So even if they were ”puppets” of the west, it’s a huge benefit for them.
I am so confused by all the conspiracy theories about someone pulling the strings and controlling from the shadows. Who is controlling now, what is the goal and how are they achieving it?