Comments by "FiveLiver" (@FiveLiver) on "Ukraine and Russia pause peace talks" video.
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@historypolitics108 Neutral bridge? That's just rhetoric he doesn't explain.
"The West must understand that, to Russia, Ukraine can never be just a foreign country. Russian history began in what was called Kievan-Rus. The Russian religion spread from there. Ukraine has been part of Russia for centuries, and their histories were intertwined before then. Some of the most important battles for Russian freedom, starting with the Battle of Poltava in 1709 , were fought on Ukrainian soil. The Black Sea Fleet — Russia’s means of projecting power in the Mediterranean — is based by long-term lease in Sevastopol, in Crimea. Even such famed dissidents as Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Joseph Brodsky insisted that Ukraine was an integral part of Russian history and, indeed, of Russia."
The West must understand this, but what of the Ukrainians? He is craftily suggesting they voluntarily see things Russia's way.
He suggests "Ukraine should have the right to choose freely its economic and political associations, including with Europe". Then contradicts himself by saying they should not join NATO. He believes "if Ukraine is to survive and thrive, it must not be either side’s outpost against the other". How would NATO prevent Ukraine from surviving and thriving? Only Russia presents this threat.
This is what he got right. "Russia must accept that to try to force Ukraine into a satellite status, and thereby move Russia’s borders again, would doom Moscow to repeat its history of self-fulfilling cycles of reciprocal pressures with Europe and the United States."
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