Some wild talk ! May I suggest a bare 30 minutes research into the problem of Ukraine, before starting to post.
Why?
First, to a great extent its another political misfit (think Iraq as another). Here's one perspective on the artificial construct of Ukraine.
Ukraine is barely a country, rather an amalgam of provinces left over from failed empires - Russian, Austrian, Lithuanian, Ottoman - cobbled together into a Soviet "republic" and cast adrift after the collapse of Communism. Lviv (Lemberg) was a German-speaking city, part of Austrian Silesia; before World War II a quarter of its people were Jews. Jews were two-fifths of the population of Odessa. A fifth of the population, mainly in the east, are ethnic Russians; a tenth, mainly in the west, are Uniate Catholics, who have a special place in Catholic policy since the papacy of John Paul II. Ukrainian nationality is as dubious as Byelorussian nationality: neither of them had a dictionary of their language until 1918.
You will note that 20% of the population is ethnic Russian. The Crimea is well within the area in which they live. These people speak Russian and are proud of being Russian. They will not abandon their Russian sympathies, and Russia will not abandon them. And located in the Crimea is the main Russian Naval/Military base on the Black Sea, which of course is likely the target of the 'black' strategists in the Pentagon (America's version of the Kremlin.)
My quotation above is from a review of the West's options in Ukraine. It was written by David Goldman** (Goldman often writes under the pen-name of Spengler) . Goldman is strongly (vociferously) anti-Islam, pro-Jewish and pro-traditional European civilisation.
The central point of his analysis could be summarised as the Ukraine being a 'failed' state. (They are my words, not his). It has an enormous financial problem. Goldman estimates that the west would need to pump $20 billion into the country to sustain it. Have the Europeans got that much spare cash? Umm, maybe not. So lookout American taxpayers, better lay down now and take your pants off. Better to feign enjoyment of the process than to have it done forcibly with the spilling of more blood of young Americans and further damage to the USA's infra-structure.
Be sure it could come to that, for I doubt that Russian Russians will abandon Ukrainian Russians, and pro-west Ukrainians will not let 'Ukrainian' territory be lost. Because, giving up the pro-Russian East would not be in the interests of the American military/industrial complex that has captured control of the American state.
If you'd like to have a clearer view of the problem, read Goldman's article at:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-240214.html
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** Spengler is channeled byDavid P Goldman. He is Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum. His bookHow Civilizations Die (and why Islam is Dying, Too) was published by Regnery Press in September 2011. A volume of his essays on culture, religion and economics, It's Not the End of the World - It's Just the End of You, also appeared that fall, from Van Praag Press.
