Ukraine broke away from the Soviet Union about 23 years ago by issuing a Declaration of Independence after the Soviet government started falling apart.
The “Treaty” Ukraine signed with the brand new Russian Federation was a joke.
Russia was led by Boris Yeltsin, a drunkard, a prima donna, and the engineer of the total collapse of the Russian economy.
In 2004, Ukraine's own government started falling apart.
Since 2008, Ukraine's economy has been falling apart.
In 2014, Crimea, which was independent of Ukraine as recently as 1945, and which is about 60% Russian, issued a Declaration of Independence and broke away from Ukraine.
I don't understand why America should risk war with Russia to force Crimea to re-join a dysfunctional and flat broke country like Ukraine.
” In 2004, Ukraine’s own government started falling apart.
Since 2008, Ukraine’s economy has been falling apart.”
And if Ukraine, which depends on Russia for 67% of its energy and 32% of its exports, continues with its vitriolic attacks against RF, it will find itself in the dark and with an economy at stand-still.
Ukraine exported US$1.2 billion worth of merchandise to the United States in 2007, while exports to Russia attained more than $12 billion. Ukrainian imports from Russia in 2007 reached $18 billion, to be compared with imports from Germany - $5 billion.
Who’s gonna be the looser of this idiotic game?
Would you use the same isolationist argument if he now takes the rest of Ukraine? Belarus? Georgia, Khazakstan? Those are relatively disfunctional goverments as well.