| Mr Khan said:
This whole mess wouldn't be a bad opportunity for some border correction, though it would have to take under the auspices of an internationally-overseen plebiscite. Let the ethnic Russians who live on Russia's border be actual Russians (along with the Crimeans, who were supposed to be anyway until a last-minute change near the dissolution of the USSR). Or at least federalize like Bosnia/Belgium did and Yemen is doing. |
Oh boy, Jacob Kedmi is right, you do not understand anything in what's going on. Do not blame you, it took me years of practice to grasp a little understanding of the mess they call politics in Ukraine :D
First of all, who cares about borders? If Saakashvili would have sit tight on his butt, he would have still could call Abkhazia and South Ossetia a Georgian territory and not lie. Second, what is ethnic Russian? I'm ethnic Russian? Half Tatar, half Jewish. You usually become ethnic Russian elsewhere. Besides in Ukriane national self-indentification (Russian or Ukrainian) greatly depends on the current political situation :D which makes any kind of polls virtually useless. If Marco Polo would have travelled to China through territory of modern Ukraine, he'd have probably considered Ukrainian by the nationalists :D Matter of perspective, even if it's ridiculous one.
