...So unbelievable it tests ones patience to be polite.
Who counted the votes?
Who were the non beaten up, non kidnapped, non shot, non murdered, pro Ukrainian poll watchers?
91% sounds like a high figure. But even if its exaggerated, there is no doubt most people in Donetsk and Lugansk want another kind of future.
If they want state sovereignty, who are we to stand in their way? Ironically enough, the same thing used to be said about the Soviet Union. Ukraine must be kept in it by force. We saw that was nonsensical.
Just as it today’s position eastern Ukraine must be kept in the country by force even if a majority of its people want to leave. No country can be held together if people have different visions of what they want. Lvov and Ivano-Frankovsk have a different view of what Ukraine should be from Donetsk and Lugansk.
In a rational world, that would lead to a negotiated divorce. Which will happen only when every one finally realizes its impossible to preserve the status quo ante at all costs.