Looking at some of the recent posts I’m getting a sense that the clever thing for Ukraine to have done was to:
Wait for the break up of the Soviet Union.
Think to themselves that although they are legally allowed to govern themselves, that some time in the future a Russian president will want to reform the old USSR, will make up some pretend reasons blaming Ukraine, but not to worry unduly for many years…………perhaps until the year 2014.
At around 2014 the Ukrainians should then expect Russian forces to invade Ukraine, but to pretend that those Russian troops in Russian uniforms and vehicles aren’t actually Russian troops………….A bit like a military occupation version of the kids game ‘Guess who’.
This invasion will be a secret signal to Ukraine that it now had 8 years in order to remove its troops and its population from literally thousands of square km in order to make a future and second invasion of Ukraine easier for the future attacking forces.
This 8 year period was to be used also for Ukrainians to get any education or medical procedures done well before their schools and hospitals would be bombed by invading forces.
The eight years were also long enough for Ukrainians to spend a lot of time outdoors, this was to get lots of exposure to the sun, and thus ‘thicken’ their skins. The thicker skins being needed to counteract the future armchair generals who would demonise the Ukrainian population for having the cheek to want to LIVE in their own houses and country.
These same recent posts seem to have never considered an alternative thirty-ish year period where Russia decided not to invade Ukraine purely to satisfy a president who became mega rich and powerful due to the break up of the Soviet Union, but who would later say that break up was an awful thing
