True. Poor Ukraine (which means “at the frontier/borderlands”) was never its very own country until 1991 for a reason.
It’s especially sad because, as a neutral country (as neutrality was wisely enshrined in its original constitution), it could have prospered serving a buffer zone and trade bridge between East and West. This would have been a wise state of affairs for Western Europe and Russia, too. Win/win on both the economic and security fronts.
But no, the neocons/neolibs in Washington couldn’t have that! So here we are.
Yes, as you wrote in an earlier post, “EU and NATO are absolutely the proximate cause of the Ukraine war”.
I usually stay off the Ukraine threads, as they quickly devolve into mindless slugfests, but some intelligent comments on this one.
Austria successfully stayed neutral throughout the entire Cold War. That was a model appropriate for the independent Ukraine.
But there was, and is, a bipartisan faction in America’s political elite that openly wants to do to Russia what was done to Yugoslavia. Break it up into multiple little nations. A proxy war ought to be a great way to achieve this, and Ukraine is our obedient puppet.