Booker: Ukraine?" fantasy " of the West, which has led to nightmare
Ukraine is one of the three "fantasies" of Europe together with the European common foreign money and politics provide asylum to migrants, which created it a nightmare, writes British journalist Christopher Booker century
According to Booker, in regard to Ukraine, he can't recall another occasion, when Western leaders perceived the situation as " hopelessly wrong ".
The problem, he continues, was not in the desire centuries Putin to make the Russian-speaking population of Crimea part of the country to which it once belonged, and not in support of Eastern Ukraine in its desire not to be embroiled in the EU and NATO corrupt government in Kiev.
"We said that the crisis had led expansionism of Russia. However, the only real reason for this drop is the desire of the EU to continuously expand its borders and to increase the size of their "Empire" right in the heart of the Russian national identity, " writes journalist.
in the end, the Ukrainian crisis, as the two other " fantasy ", turned to Europe's problems, which, According to Booker, " appears to have become impassable.
on the next day once Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders signed an agreement on the settlement brokered by the EU Parliament, taking advantage of the visit of Yanukovych in Kharkov, removed the President from power, changed the Constitution and called early elections on may 25. Viktor Yanukovych was forced to leave Ukraine, fearing for his life. Chronicle of the revolution -
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