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Like the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Norway, Ireland, Belgium, Iceland, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, Belarus, Italy, Hungary, Norway, and Bosnia?  All of Europe was pretty much part of someone else's empire prior to WW1.  Ukraine is no different or less legitimate than those countries.

I find Ukraine's entire region annoying but it is an important buffer.  I definitely wouldn't bring them into NATO because it's impossible to defend geographically but they grow a lot ofnfood and the Black Sea has a lot of natural gas so it has important natural resources.  They have a right to exist and the naive Neville Chamberlain-esque attitude you are showing is bad strategic judgement. [/quote]

You say this like their food and their natural gas is somehow yours to manage and mind.[/quote]

It's theira to mind not Russia's.  Thoae two things are the reason why Russia wants to take them over.

But since we're talking about a grand re-organization of Russia's post WWI borders, should Konigsburg go back to Germany?  Should Moldova go back to Romania?  Murmansk to Finland?  Chechnya?   Sakhalin and the Kuriles to Japan?[/quote]

Carry on - why stop there?  (I should note that no sane country would want Chechnya, you know).

Poland should give Silesia, Pomerania and 80% of East Prussia back to Germany and thank Mr. Stalin for his generous gift. It should also apologize to the ethnic German population of these areas who were expelled over three months.  I mean say what you want about USSR and Konigsberg, but it did give the Germans six years to "repatriate".

Lithuania should return its capital Vilnius to Poland, and Klaipeda to Germany, again with thanks to Mr. Stalin.

Romania, the ungrateful child that supported the Nazis, still received the gift of Transylvania (formerly Hungary).  Justice now!

Bulgaria helped itself to South Dobruja, formerly Romania. Tsk, tsk.

And now to Ukraine, this proud, freedom-lovin' country.   To restore justice post-WW2, it should return its western part (Lvov, Ternopol and Ivano-Frankovsk) to Poland, who owned them 1939.  Also, return Chernovitsy to Romania, who owned these lands till 1940.  Also, return Zakarpatye to Hungary and Slovakia, who owned them till 1945. I mean honestly, say what you want about USSR's iron boot, but Ukraine made out like a bandit land-wise.  Is it going to return these lands to their rightful owners or keep enjoyin' USSR's gifts?
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