[ Dear Grace,
Thank you for all of your support.
Vladimir Putin ]
So you want the Ukraine to be in the EU?
Not gonna play that game with you, sorry. Unless—do you want Ukraine to be in the CIS (or whatever Vladi calls it nowadays)?
Grace, Ukraine has had plenty of experience of being under the boot of Russia. The protests are more about removing a pro-Russian, corrupt and criminal Putinista boot licker than it is about “joining the EU”. There are many on FR who have a strange nostalgia for the Soviet Union and see in Putin their chance to see that goal achieved.