The coup government will still have the western part of the country. Looks like only the east doesn’t want to live under Svoboda. The west seems like it has no desire to follow suit of the eastern regions.
I know this might be freakin’ crazy, but why not allow any Ukrainian to live in the zone they wish? Anyone who doesn’t feel “Russian”, then go to western Ukraine young man where the EU will not allow you to freely immigrate from. Anyone in the east who hates the EU and sees Bandera as a Nazi and is sickened to see his poster carried down the street, move to eastern Ukraine. easy peasy. Then just get down to business and trade.
But I feel like the coup really will not stop its desire to seize the entire country. And Russia will simply not sit still while NATO comes in and poises 200 miles from Moscow, 60 miles from Kursk, and 80 miles to Volgograd. Those names have meaning to them.
Their classic fear is that Europe will invade them as it has done repeatedly. And instead of sanity prevailing, NATO and the EU is expanding eastward as fast as they can.
You’re very committed to Putin and the paranoid theory of Russia. Give ‘em a pass; they cannot help killing their neighbors. They’re scared after all.