“” “” How much of Ukraine would be worse off if the mess were partitioned? Just a crazy thought.”” “”
Earler on this tread I offered a scientific explaination of what and why there is Ukraine. In short a retread Zaporozhskaya Secha - a post medieval Cossak statelet from lower Dniepr living off piracy and racket. Their main occupation was robbing Turkish towns around Black Sea coast and accasional raids on Polish villages. They were merely tolerated by Russia for the purpose of containment of Turkey and Poland but after what Catherine the Great did to Turkey in Poland in 1700s both weren’t a threat anymore and Secha outlived its usefulness and died off becoming a part of Russia.
Nobody really missed it including former residents. Its idea was revived as Ukraine in earlier 20th century by Lenin and his Commie pals with the purpose to incite as much unrest as possible. Lenin and Bolsheviks who as we know now were German spies hated Russia with all fibers of their filthy souls and in line with German intelligence developed a slogan: ‘Russia is a prison of nations!’ They played Ukraine along with other mostly Western Russian minorities the way the left plays minorities in US. That is basically the whole story although I admit I had it simplified for better comprehension. The idea is still that.
Thanks for that summary. It does answer my maybe no so crazy question.