Ukraine’s tragedy is everyone’s tragedy
... government ‘legitimate’ or ‘illegitimate’ as it suits her and treat it accordingly. The annexation of part of Eastern Ukraine by Russia would be a disaster. But federalisation could be no less: if such a federation is as loose as Putin wants it to be, and a number of regions are controlled by Russian puppets, it will not only amount to the ‘finlandisation’ of Ukraine — Putin’s goal — but to complete governmental paralysis, and perhaps sustained separatism....
17.04.2014
