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

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Since the breakup of the austria-hungarian empire, this region has never stable and never will. They are small landlocked countries with giants next to them (russia and germany)

The uk is debating ww1 and its terrifying that from the moment franz ferdinand was murdered, we have yet to find a long term peaceful solution to this war.  Eastern Ukraine is not Russian, its central european. Asking the people of Lviv to be like Moscow is like asking prague, budapest and krakow if they feel Russian.

I have visited Kharkiv and Donetsk for footballing reasons and they are very Russian. They speak Russian, you don't hear Ukrainian. Shops serve you in Russian, the food/choice/religion is all similar. Ukraine as a state doesn't work because you have a mixture of different empires.

The european union will fail as a project because like austria-hungary, ottoman empire there was no common language. This is why ukraine will always be fragile and the long term it will split.

It is arrogant and foolish of the west to allow a nation with two different languages and cultures to become one nation. Look at Yugoslavia? It gained an empire from ww1 but took 70 years until it found its natural end.

Ukraine should be separated for long term peace of the region. This is exactly like yugoslavia.

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Ukraine should be separated for long term peace of the region. This is exactly like yugoslavia.

Ukraine may not have any choice.

Free people have a choice. It/s a disgrace what is happening to ethnic russian speakers in former soviet republics. Constantly beaten with a stick to promote right wing nationalism.