Would eastern and western Ukraine be better off going their separate ways?

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I know Gully's question was rhetorical, but:



Red=Germany
Blue=Czechia
Brown=Slovakia
Purple=Poland
Yellow=Ukraine
Orange=Romania
Green=Hungary
Lime Green=Italy
Beige=Yugoslavia

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A solution which would have satisfied no-one - like the post-war treaties. And for someone supporting the breakup of countries, you seem keen on 'Yugoslavia'.

I never said that Ukraine should split up (and Yugoslavia was, at least objectively, a better deal than the breakup, at least as it happened). Those just seemed like the least bad borders (other than a few tweaks I could make now that I look at it again) that could be carved out of the Habsburg Empire.

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A solution which would have satisfied no-one - like the post-war treaties. And for someone supporting the breakup of countries, you seem keen on 'Yugoslavia'.

I never said that Ukraine should split up (and Yugoslavia was, at least objectively, a better deal than the breakup, at least as it happened). Those just seemed like the least bad borders (other than a few tweaks I could make now that I look at it again) that could be carved out of the Habsburg Empire.

You are making the error of assuming that it seems 'rational' for a cartographic point of view (as seen in Lancaster, PA!) is necessarily the best solution on the ground.

(least bad = rational and coherent !)

Oh, I'm fully aware that my proposed map would go down just as poorly as the actual postwar border changes did, but I tried.