Is a read over of the scenario before WW1 to the Ukraine today really viable
would the Russians with no KGB and coercive state machine go to war for 'fellow slavs ' meaning the elite would have to give up homes in London Monaco etc etc.
Would America go to war to support a country who most Americans would think is part of Russia anyway being full of people called ivan and Natasha and backwards alphabets?
The EU has troubles of its own and understandable -if you are French German Dutch Polish etc rather averse to having much of your country laid waste or occupied in close to living memory. I doubt the Brit military -with all due respect could make even the slightest impact on a conflict that far away and on a large scale.
Would Putin take such a risk when he is unlikely to be able to back it up , even at the height of Commie times they were far more scared of Nato than we were of them its just that we didn't realise it at the time.
So Ukraine needs some common sense handling and ought to get sorted out in a sensible manner and there are all kinds of reasons why it can all be worked out-its just that nagging doubt that history teaches us that sometimes it doesn't
PB