25 years isn’t such a long time for statehood.
Anyway, a political solution will save every one from having to take sides.
The likely outcome is a federal arrangement in Ukraine concluded between the West and Russia.
“25 years isn’t such a long time for statehood.”
The Ukraine has been a sovereign state for almost 97 years, not “25 years.” The Ukrainian sovereignty while a member of the Soviet Union was recognized by the United Nations, which seated the Ukrainian government as a seperate state. Furthermore it has been only 22 years and 7 months since the Ukraine’s membership in the Soviet Union was dissolved in August 1991, and not 25 years.
“Anyway, a political solution will save every one from having to take sides.”
That is a false statement used for pro-Russian disinformation and propaganda. If that were the case, Putin would have used political diplomacy and perhaps a purchase of the Crimea instead of brute military force against the sovereign Ukraine to forcibly conquer and annex the territory.
“The likely outcome is a federal arrangement in Ukraine concluded between the West and Russia.”
That is a false statement used for pro-Russian disinformation and propaganda, because the Russian insistence upon federalizing the Ukrainian provinces is designed specifically to divide the Ukraine up until it can be fully conquered and annexed by Russia. The Bolshevists used the same methods to conquer the independent Ukrainian governments in 1917-1922.