About 45 million people live in that country. The entire eastern part of Ukraine has strong historical, political, social, cultural and language ties to the former Soviet Union. It was part of the then USSR until 1954 when that part of the then Soviet Union was given to Ukraine. The Russian language remains the number one traditional and spoken language in the entire eastern Ukraine nation today. The entire eastern Ukraine or the ethnic Russians voted massively for the ousted President of Ukraine, Yanukovych during the last election. The city of Crimea where the over two million ethnic Russians live today and is now militarily invaded by the Russian soldiers is just a stone throw from the Russian border.
Since Russia on one hand and the west that is led by America are both equally interested in the control of the nation of Ukraine and her future. The best political solution in my own judgement and based on the recent accounts of the human history is to divide Ukraine into two independent nations that can coexist side by side. The majority ethnic Russian part of Ukraine can form its own independent nation and the rest of Ukraine can stay together in the same way and manner that the Hitler's Germany was divided after the end of the second world war as West Germany for the west and East Germany for the then USSR . This political arrangement worked perfectly for the whole world and in the interest of global peace during the cold war of 1945 to 1990.
The America's only effective weapon at the moment against Russia that is bent on controlling Ukraine is not the war. America and the west will never go to war over Ukraine. The west cannot afford the political fallouts, the price tag for this war of choice and the cost in both the treasure and the precious human life. It will be an ill wind that blows nobody any good. America's only option is to persuade her western allies to boycott the G-8 meeting that is coming up in Sochi, Russia this summer and to technically isolate Russia from the global economy.
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