[PieterCasparzen]

Link to the original text of the Association Agreement, for your perusal and discussion of the particulars...

[kenavi]

Good idea!

[DesertRhino]

Long complex agreement. But if the EU actually cared about Ukrainians, all the EU needed to do was simply unilaterally suspend all tariffs, and immigration rules for Ukraine. Then they could sit back and the free market do its magic.

They owed Ukraine this reparation after the Euro depredations of WWII to a nation already raped by the USSR.

The Russians would have been compelled to offer competing generous terms. Ukraine could have prospered as a free trade middleman.

But this never really was about what would be good for Ukraine. It was about punishing Putin for Syria, for the homo policies, and for kicking out our NGOs. About the EU gaining a gas advantage over their Russian suppliers, and of course, about moving NATO deeper east to menace Russia.

Ukraine was screwed.

[Gay State Conservative]

It's easy for an geopolitics amateur like myself to understand why Ukraine would feel the need to align herself with the EU.A small country sharing a border with a nation with a history of oppression and occupation.If Ukraine is “screwed”,as a previous poster suggested,it's mainly because of Osama Obama’s complicity in the unrest...in the threats from the new and improved Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.