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Music and Art at the Ukrainian Institute of America
Posted by uses this as opportunity to toot the horn on September 10, 2005 at 09:44:46:
In Reply to: Re: Ukrainians have very long history of fighting posted by Mike Allen on September 10, 2005 at 09:22:58:
: I think politically Ukraine can opt for strict neutrality and one day can form some kind of federation with Belarus, Moldova and who knows Russia too.
? Switzerland we are not and why should we be? - remember "Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
And when you start sounding like Korchynsky who even states that "Since in the CES Ukraine will never realize its ambitions ...", it is just too ridiculous for words.
: Talk of bringing in NATO has caused outrage among many Ukrainians in the east and south.
Many in Poland were against entrance into NATO but after it went through not even an issue. For Putin it is an outrage and I am not even going to address the non-existent (only in his mind) geo-political spheres of influence which have to be respected by everyone but him.