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Re: barack obama: ''The cold war has been over for 20 years'' |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Wed Mar 5 20:49:47 2014, in response to Re: barack obama: ''The cold war has been over for 20 years'', posted by AlM on Wed Mar 5 15:33:37 2014. OK ... finally got to reading the article, and he's largely right about the local political landscape there, as well as Putin's APPARENT intentions. Ukraine's political realities are very complicated because of both Russian as well as European ethnicity there. It's a potentially volatile mix but the one thing that HAS worked for Ukraine has been "we're all Ukrainian here" in the end.I also agree that for better or worse, Ms. Tymoshenko will be restored (she's had her own issues, but Yanukovych tossing her in jail gave her back more cred than she deserves) as about the only figurehead that can work with all sides. But as to Crimea, it was a gift from Krushchev, and it's now an inseparable part of Ukraine. Putin knew this which is why he knew he could pull what he did in order to get their attention. The original interim government was so pissed off over what Yanukovych did that they overreacted, thus where we ended up. The US and EU can "bargain" all they want, but it won't make any difference to Ukraine. They need to work this out themselves and cooler heads are already prevailing from what I hear from my guys there. |
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