When the pro-Russia Yanukovych government was in power, it was fashionable to talk about the irreconcilable differences between east and west Ukraine, and the prospect of a split-up, with protesters in Western cities openly talking about splitting off and starting a new country centered around Lviv.
Governments change, and Yanukovych is now on the outs, with a pro-West government taking his place. The east-west split remains, however, and now it’s protesters in the east and south that are talking about secession.
Thousands took to the streets of the port city of Sevastapol, in the Crimea today, calling for the Crimea to secede and potentially be returned to Russian control, as it historically was before Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev redrew the borders and put it in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
Suddenly secession isn’t looking so good to the US, who insists that Ukraine must remain unified at all costs and that any secession would be “unacceptable” to them.
Historically, the territory that is the modern Ukraine covers several distinct nations, though the largest split remains between the Ukrainian-speaking west and the Russian-speaking east.
The Crimea is the one portion of Russian-speaking Ukrainian territory that is most important to Russia, as Sevastapol has hosted the Russian Navy for centuries. Western officials have been keen to integrate Ukraine into NATO, forcing Russia to move its Naval infrastructure down shore to Novorossylsk.
Let's hope the Russian-speaking areas of Ukraine are able to secede peacefully. If only enough Americans could do the same thing to separate themselves from the District of Corruption, what happened in 1861 notwithstanding.
The US supported the partition of Serbia, but opposes that of the Ukraine. Why?
Ukraine is a dangerous and confusing mafia. Maybe that's just my American talking, but it seems like that. Perhaps re-joining Russia will put a damper on psychotic US machinations. Bunch of USAholes aren't happy unless they are destabilizing and upending, no? A shame.
Ukraine always seemed like a sorry and struggling place.A union by Stalin between Polish Catholics in the West and Russian Orthodox in the East. Maybe that's just my American talking, but it seems like that. Perhaps re-joining Russia will put a damper on psychotic US machinations. Bunch of USAholes aren't happy unless they are destabilizing and upending, no? A shame.
Ukraine always seemed like a sorry and struggling place.A union by Stalin between Polish Catholics in the West and Russian Orthodox in the East. Maybe that's just my American talking, but it seems like that. Perhaps re-joining Russia will put a damper on psychotic US machinations. Bunch of USAholes aren't happy unless they are destabilizing and upending, no? A shame.
Ukraine always seemed like a sorry and struggling place.A union by Stalin between Polish Catholics in the West and Russian Orthodox in the East. Maybe that's just my American talking, but it seems like that. Perhaps re-joining Russia will put a damper on psychotic US machinations. Bunch of USAholes aren't happy unless they are destabilizing and upending, no? A shame.
Ukraine always seemed like a sorry and struggling place.A union by Stalin between Polish Catholics in the West and Russian Orthodox in the East. Maybe that's just my American talking, but it seems like that. Perhaps re-joining Russia will put a damper on psychotic US machinations. Bunch of USAholes aren't happy unless they are destabilizing and upending, no? A shame.
The Western Ukranians better be careful of getting what they are asking for. What they will get for wanting to be part of the EU is a good royal financial f–king from the London bankers like Greece got, and some missile sites and torture palaces courtesy of Uncle Sam. Other than that, "nichivo".
just what pnac wants….all countries to fall apart