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IMO the obvious solution is to allow eastern Ukraine a sizeable degree of autonomy in a federalised Ukraine but Kiev always rejected this, unwilling to lose any centralised control and only happy to have the rebels and their aims crushed. This is not a Ukrainian people vs Russia conflict, it is not USA vs Russia, and neither should be using Ukraine as a scene for their proxy war. It is fundamentally a civil conflict between two different outlooks in Ukraine that are becoming ever harder to reconcile the more that people remain entrenched in a cold war mindset.