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Sanctions? As you may know we don't have an army. What else do you suggest?
by interdrift 7y ago
Sanctions? As you may know we don't have an army. What else do you suggest?
- peteretep 7y agoNo idea, but the point I was responding that Europeans would never let Russia dominate a border country, and the Ukraine seems like a counter point.
- akmarinov 7y agoUkraine is Russia’s buffer to NATO, not the EU’s buffer to Russia.
- michaelt 7y agoIf western europe was looking to square up to Russia to protect an eastern europe buffer zone, they could have used the Budapest memorandum on security assurances as a pretext to offer military assistance the moment Russian troops started crossing the border. One could reasonably argue that Ukraine simply wasn't part of the EU, and if Russia threatened Poland it would be a different matter. That it is the EU membership, not the buffer zone, that is important. Another possible interpretation is EU would have wanted to intervene, but its current political structure proved too deliberative to react before it was too late. That would imply an EU army would also need political reform.
- kyriakos 7y agoCrimea is/was part of Ukraine though not part of EU. There are still active sanctions over Russian activities there and were recently renewed.