American professor: Big powers will decide the fate of Ukraine without taking into account the opinions of Kyiv
Russia is more important for the West than Ukraine, whose interests may not be taken into account by international players when reaching agreements on resolving the current conflict in Donbass.
American professor Hiroaki Kuromiya, author of the study “Freedom and Terror in Donbass: Ukrainian-Russian Borderland in the 1870s – 1990s,” did not rule out such a development of events in an interview with the Kyiv magazine “New Time.”
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“The most dangerous scenario is that big powers such as Russia, the United States and Germany will resolve this issue among themselves, without taking into account the interests of Ukraine,” the researcher warns. – We remember the history of Poland at the end of World War II, when the heads of the anti-Hitler coalition Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt decided the fate of this small country, completely ignoring its opinion. However, the irony of history is that thanks to this repartition of Poland, Ukraine remained the winner, as it received Eastern Galicia and Lviv.
Today, Russia is still more important for Western Europe and the United States, because it is a nuclear state with a large territory and economy.”
American Professor: The Great Powers Will Decide Ukraine's Fate Without Taking Kiev's Opinion into Account