Why not let the Ukrainians decide if they want the EU? If they do, let them have it. If it’s a mistake, it’s their mistake. By what right does Putin stop them? That’s what you must defend.
Exactly, why not let THEM decide ?
Trouble is, EU/US has been promoting the idea so skillfully for so long in Ukraine that it’s really impossible to say it’s “their mistake”.
Anyone that does some reading knows there has been a tremendous US-backed push for Westernization going on for decades.
Here’s a brief documentation of just some of the actors:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3126045/posts
By what right does Putin stop them ?
By the same right that the US uses when it’s economic concerns are at issue, and it’s military footprint around the globe is at issue - the US simply goes in and starts elbowing around to make room for its critical interests.
Trade between Ukraine and BOTH Russia AND the West has been going on for twenty years, so there is no need to “open up” Urkraine economically; it’s already open to the West for trade.
This is about the EU wanting to bring Ukraine under its regulatory umbrella.
Anyone who has honestly studied the EU would see that it’s a scheme that usurps national sovereignty.