Ian Welsh
Some anti-hysteria on the Ukraine and Russian Intervention: http://www.ianwelsh.net/some-perspective-on-russian-intervention-in-the-ukraine/ …
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@iwelsh I'm gobsmacked by how few pundits understand that ALL break-away nations take with them a lot of unwilling people.
Milorad Ivović
@iwelsh For some reason they just can't transpose the situation to say, California breaking away, and ask themselves "what would USG do?"
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@iwelsh My heart is with Ukrainians who want greater economic choices and respectable leadership, but that doesn't mean I have to be naive. -
@ivovic I don't think they're going to get it. But if I were a Western Ukrainian I would probably have supported the revolution. -
@iwelsh Nobody ever gets great political leadership. At least, not for very long. -
@ivovic I don't think they'll even get decent. IMF reforms will be brutal, they virtually always are. Bankrupt countries get fucked. -
@iwelsh As you allude to, there's a chance that Ukraine's strategic value will earn them a genuine prop-up for reasons of open alliance. -
@ivovic Possible. But unlikely. The West is too greedy and mean. This isn't 89 and they aren't poland.
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