XPost: alt.politics   
   From: campbell@neotext.ca   
      
   It doesn't get mentioned because everyone wants to blame Gengis   
   and the Mongols, but the MAIN difference between Russian and   
   Ukrainian was an affliction of the Austro-Hungarian Empire:   
   Ukraine was controlled by Vienna, Russia by Moscow.   
      
   And it seems to me that the guys who settled WW2 understood the   
   importance of making (a shrunken) Austria a Neutral and Independant   
   buffer zone.   
      
   Making Peace in Ukraine, and turning it into a decent place to live,   
   should be as easy as Austro-sizing Ukraine, not ostracizing Russia.   
      
   Dhu   
      
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     C'est une esp`ece de sauvage.   
     Ne obliviscaris: vix ea nostra voco!   
      
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