I have no problem with Ukraine as another new “Finland” in this era - a “neutral”.
Unfortunately I do not believe that alone is acceptable to Putin or that he would respect it.
On Russia-EU intercourse Putin is a hypocrite. He has no problem with a Russian-nationalist energy policy that wants strong economic ties to the rest of Europe but he wants Ukraine to not have such independent thinking for itself. He wants Ukraine to defer to Russian-nationalist interests. That would not be a neutral Ukriane.
First of all, I don’t think “Finlandization” is desired by the Ukrainians, so what we or the Russians may want may not matter that much in the end.
“I have no problem with Ukraine as another new “Finland” in this era - a “neutral”.”
Soon you will hear that you are a deep state neocon...
There is a cause to the Ukraine crisis that isn’t much talked about.
China needs food. Ukraine has great soil.
In 2013 China made a deal with Putin’s local stooge to lease 9% of Ukraine’s farmland indefinitely.
Selling the nation to China was one of the core reasons the people of Ukraine rose up in 2014. China still wants that land, and is using Putin to get it.