Another country in eastern Europe which was never really its own country until the Soviet Union made them a republic.
It was always part of Russia, or Lithuania or greater Poland etc.
But mostly it was just a part of Russia, not unlike Texas is to us.
The NeoCons won’t let up. It will take a stake in the right place.
“” “” Another country in eastern Europe which was never really its own country until the Soviet Union made them a republic.”” “”
The important point is that nobody is goint to annex it just like nobody was going to annex Ukraine.
If you are to look closer into the situation the protestors in Minsk are a bunch of 30 people and they have their standard posters like ‘stop Putin’, ‘no to Russian aggression’ written in English for some weird reason.
That’s a deliberate PR action aimed at foreign consumption to create fresh tensions as Ukraine starts to annoy.
The Russian-Belorusians union state is a concept stretching into mid-1990s and mostly mulled by the Belarusian president who had a certain cult among freedom-hating morrons in Russia who have seen Lukashenko as a perfect alternative to Yeltsin. Lukashenko nurtured the idea in hope to replace Yeltsin as a leader of both countries.
I don’t see it as practically impossible but I don’t think it is really on menu at this point.
I have relatives, both would be called “Ukrainians” today.
When they immigrated to the USA in 1910, one listed her nationality as “Austrian” and her language as “Russian”, the other listed “Russian” for both.
Woodrow Wilson really doesn’t have the last word.