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Old 10-02-2015, 08:53 AM #24
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Originally Posted by MTVN View Post
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.
I totally agree.
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