Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Mirror Mirror On the Wall

If Ukraine is just going to be a smaller version of Russia, Ukraine is doomed and they might as well just restore the prefix "The" to their name and get the defeat over with now.

Putin smiles:

Poroshenko is quickly reversing the progress in rule of law and separation of powers made in Ukraine since the revolution of dignity. If this continues, Ukraine will again be a quasi-authoritarian kleptocracy in which few holders of power use the state apparatus to advance their private interests.

If this is truly the path Ukraine is on, Russia will win.

We could sell Ukraine every weapon Ukraine wants, but if Ukraine is just a smaller, weaker version of Russia, Russia will eventually overpower the smaller version of Russia.