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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   On 4/2/2022 9:26 AM, Intelligent Party wrote:   
   > The Ukraine and the two new republics should consider Free Association:   
   >   
   > This would include:   
   >   
   > 1.The right to Work.   
   > 2.The right to Reside.   
   > 3.Equal rights.   
   > 4.If Political rights.   
   > 5.And Human rights.   
   >   
   > This would be possible, even if the two new republics decide to request   
   annexation   
   > by Russia sometime in the future, which they may never do.  If so, two   
   > possibilities would be that while both the Ukraine and Russia could use both   
   the   
   > republics, people residing in the republics would have both the Ukraine and   
   > Russia, if they had lived in the new republic for a period of years, or else   
   as of   
   > a certain date and/or were descendants.   
   >   
   > Perhaps in the future, the EU and the EAEU will each have each other anyway.   
   > Russia is part of Europe, and not Arabia.  We are not nations of eternal   
   war, and   
   > wish to see peace through a united Europe.   
   >   
   >   
   > Norway and Iceland are not in the EU, but have a separate EFTA - European   
   Free   
   > Trade Association, which has the EU:   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association   
   >   
   >   
   > The U.S. has a Compact of Free Association with the Marshall islands,   
   Micronesia,   
   > and Palau:   
   > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association   
   >   
   >   
   > Additionally, as a token of good will, the Russians can perhaps put Crimea   
   in Free   
   > Association with the Ukraine as well.  Or, more extremely, the entirety of   
   Russia   
   > could be in Free Association with the Ukraine, while the Ukraine joins the   
   EU. The   
   > second idea would perhaps entail a little more border and immigration issues   
   at   
   > the Ukrainian borders.   
      
   Bump   
      
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