Russia-Ukraine, India-Pakistan: Two Existential Conflicts in Eurasia
... Ukraine, also triggering significant migration flows that continue up to this day. It is precisely the closeness of the “cultural and historical codes” of the two pairs of nations that gives rise to the desire among the emerging political elites in Pakistan and Ukraine to distance themselves from their larger neighbours as much as possible. The problem of these two newly born nations was that they did not have any significant history of independent modern statehood from which to draw, unlike some other parts ...