4 Big Reasons Russia Doesn't Want Ukraine

 

Alexander Mercouris

Expert in: International law, international relations.

10.09.2014 

1.       Ukraine is bankrupt with its currency in freefall and output plunging.  Turning its economy around is a massive challenge requiring immense investment.  Russia doesn't have the money.

2.       Most Ukrainians don’t want Ukraine to be part of Russia.  A distrubing number of them are fascist extremists prone to grisly violence.  Much better to let the EU digest this one.

3.       NATO would call it conquest and use it to justify Cold War 2.0.

4.       Russia doesn’t want to recreate the USSR.  If it did, it would have conquered Georgia in 2008 when it could have easily done so.   It had the perfect pretext.  Georgia started a war by viciously attacking pro-Russian separatists, clearly with US encouragement and support.

 

 

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