Originally Posted by
NutLoose
Nothing, they are an independent sovereign state and neither should NATO, we were invited into the new Countries of NATO and have worked together in peace and prosperity, we didn’t take them by force as the old Soviet Union did, they are on the whole also part of the EU as well, a free and democratic gathering.
Think it is perhaps more complicated.
Ukraine is a post WW2 construct, generated by the USSR to boost its voting power in the UN.
Khrushchev arbitrarily allocated Crimea and surrounds to the Ukraine in the 1950s, perhaps to atone for his role in the murder by starvation of millions of Ukraine peasants as a part of Stalin's anti Kulak regime.
There is considerable evidence that the recent Ukraine leadership seeks to eliminate the substantial Russian minority, evidenced by the hard fought decision to prohibit Russian language instruction \in the primary schools.
Think the conflict here is entirely stupid, Ukraine is so closely related to Russia that the idea of a non Russia linked state is asking for a civil war.
Competent political leadership recognizes these realities and adjusts for them.