Did the West Gamble on a Civil War in Ukraine ?

The situation in Ukraine is volatile. After an elected government was overthrown , a part of Ukraine Crimea broke away from the mother country and seceded to Russia. The matter has not ended there and all over East Ukraine the Russian speaking people have risen up in arms against the government in Kiev. The result is that Ukraine is moving its army to quell the uprising, but it has hardly any success and many of their heli- gunships have been shot down. In other words a civil war has commenced in Ukraine. Ukraine is a bankrupt nation economically and I am sure the west will have nothing to do with it in the long run. In the meantime fighting has intensified and the country is on the verge of a break up. I wonder if a war like the one in Syria will go on. The West has set the fires burning. I wonder whether they had calculated that this will happen. A civil war in Syria is one thing, but a civil war in Europe is very dangerous for the whole of Europe. I think the fading colonial powers France and UK are having a lst fling before they go into oblivion.