UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS Russians playing the gr

http://news.kievukraine.info/2014/02/russias-save-ukraine-memorandum-prevent.htmlUKRAINE UPDATE: GREAT ARTICLE ON RUSSIAN INTERESTS AND SOLUTIONS

Russians playing the great game, and doing it in public – the western way.

Very interesting.

Russian is a pragmatic language and Russians have pragmatic culture. It’s not really idealistic at all. Maybe the opposite. But as a low trust society it’s been difficult for them to move political discourse into the public sphere.

Westerners of course work by a different ethic: get conflicts out in public so that we can resolve them. And over the past decade you consistently see the Russians moving toward the western model.

The article below lists in honest terms both why Russia cannot tolerate a european Ukraine, and, how to solve it as a collective crisis that positions Russia as the rational actor against, what the rest of the world (rightly) sees as irrational western immoral political behavior.

Now, what I would like to see from the western side, is focusing on using Russia to collapse corruption in Ukraine, and to use Ukraine as a model by which to test how to restructure Russia.

Because these people stilly act like Boyars and Oligarchs: oppressive parasites..