No shit Sherlock. Ukraine is doomed to be someone's puppet by now. Such countries can't be independent by now, because they have to become strong first. About "another opinion". Stop calling this an alternative opinion. It's all the same RT bullshit that you post over and over again. About strong politicians in Ukraine - I honestly see more strong politicians in Ukraine than in Russia. One thing that heats my heart is that Putin is not everlasting and a lot will change when he quits (= dies).
How are Poiish and Ukranian relations? Seems like there is a huge vacuum of influence for a liberalized pan-slavic union, since European NATO are pussies and North America is geographically and culturally distant.
Not some USSR/Yugoslavia shit, but stronger military and economic ties to lessen vulnerability to Russian or EU/USA interests and support each other with civil infrastructure and business networking, high speed rails and new factories, shared education and employment opportunities, etc.
Reading more on this, what's the deal with V4 and Ukraine? Are there RT conspiracies about V4 or some similar Central/Eastern European cabal that half the posters here believe? Probably too busy talking about the CIA instead of the actual people who live by shady historically power-hungry fucking Russia and have legitimate issues with international integration and domestic prosperity after the USSR collapsed.
People think the EU and NATO are a good fit for dealing with this region at all? Seems pretty fucking shaky with shit like Crimea happening and all the economic problems. Not evil or corrupt like Russia obviously is, but incompetent, unreliable, and just "not a good fit" for the common interests of these slav states.
Apparently Ukraine doesn't even use the same gauge railways as Poland and the rest of Central Europe, but use the Russian/Belarus shit. I remember reading about that as a Russian advantage in WW2 defending against Germans. Prob super easy to invade and conquer Ukraine with it too haha. Maybe changing that would be a nice start to stop Russians from invading Ukraine's borders lol and prob wastes tons of money trading anywhere else.