Neither Russia nor Europe

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Ни Россия, ни Европа

According to Jean-Claude Juncker, about a forthcoming admission of Ukraine into NATO and the EU is not out of the question. It was a mistake to put the country before a choice: either Russia or the EU.

Most German Newspapers found it interesting that the message is unworthy of mention. Even the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was limited to that devoted to the statement of Jean-Claude Juncker (Jean-Claude Juncker) is only 13 lines. But in the words of Juncker, delivered during a speech in the Hague, was worth paying attention to. Literally he said the following: “In the next 20-25 years Ukraine will not become a member of the EU, and in NATO it is also not enter.”

This glove wonder. Ukraine will not join the ranks of neither the European Union nor the North Atlantic Alliance in the coming decades? Wow. Because the adoption of an exhausted and divided country into the EU and NATO — the stated purpose of Kiev. Brussels promised to Ukrainians the country’s membership in the EU once it will create all the necessary prerequisites and will meet so-called Copenhagen criteria. And the countries-NATO partners — under pressure from the United States — do not lose sight of the distant goal — to involve the country in their military Alliance.

However, the EU is ready to cancel visa regime with Ukraine, NATO also conducted military exercises in the Western part of the country in 2015 — it was believed that this “show of force” (show of force) against Russia. In addition, Brussels and the international monetary Fund’s plan to allocate billions for the reconstruction of destroyed Ukrainian economy. And suddenly now the European Commission President says — and he has the audacity to make a statement and NATO — these were not “the harbinger of membership.”

Juncker played in the Netherlands, where the sixth of April, the people will vote and will decide upon the answer to the question of whether he endorses a Free trade agreement — part of the Association Agreement 2014 — between the EU and Ukraine or rejects. Obviously, the European Commission President wants to reassure the Dutch, who have increasingly demonstrated a evroskepsisu, and to prevent what they a second time — after they rejected the constitutional Treaty of the EU in 2005 will tell Europe “no.” As he stated, that “no” can be the beginning of “a continental crisis,” the next crisis, as if we haven’t got much.

For this reason, Juncker told the truth, which in other circumstances bypass with total silence or deny: Ukraine will need many years in the country there is a situation, which would make it the “Western family”. On closer examination it turns out to be failed state (failing state) or even a failed state (failed state) — ruined, kleptocratic, looted by corrupt bureaucrats and oligarchs the state.

Corruption thrives. Justice has become a tool of the mafia, the powers that be. The rule of law are not respected. The economy is in free fall. President Poroshenko and Prime Minister Yatsenyuk as spiders in Bank. Honest, reform-oriented Ministers resign. Reform does not move forward. Willingness to fulfil the Minsk agreements is minimal. Neither the election law has not been adopted, nor the Donbass are not granted more autonomy by changing the Constitution.

Juncker and his reckless attack of honesty

This applies also to the separatists in Eastern Ukraine, but the stubbornness of the Ukrainian authorities cannot be beat — much to the anger of Berlin and Paris. Not heard left and calls the Vice-President of the United States Joe Biden (Joe Biden): “If Ukraine needs further advancement, and she wants to keep the support of the international community, it will have to do much more.”

In a time when the European Commission headed by Barroso, and in the U.S. rules George Bush (George W. Bush), Ukraine was required to choose either Russia or the West, EU or NATO. On this issue the country was divided, in her actions she was torn to pieces. An opportunity was missed to consider Ukraine as a “near abroad” and Russia, and the West, a neutral state between East and West, instead of at any cost to pull it to your camp.

Hague attack reckless honesty Juncker similar to the belated recognition of the fact that it was a big mistake. Because of her trade and economic question resulted in the forced to make strategic choices. Never attempted to find a balance of interests with Russia. But that was the root of the crisis.

To seek a balance of interests with Russia

Now the question is whether the West — and primarily the EU — specific conclusions from the revelation of the cadet. In the first place, to allow Ukraine to join the European community of States and to contextualize it in the historical tangle of relations with Russia. That would not be a compromise, not submission to the Russian ambitions, and discussed political situation step to find a balance of interests with Moscow.

Because the diagnosis made by Henry Kissinger (Henry Kissinger), is still true: “If Ukraine wants to survive and flourish, it cannot be an Outpost of one side against the other. On the contrary, it should be a bridge between them. (…) The attitude to Ukraine as to the object of confrontation between East and West will mean, for many decades, the omission of any chance at engaging Russia and the West (especially Russia and Europe) in constructive international system.”

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