Manipulated is the right word. Turkey has been trying to get into the EU for 30 years and it is still waiting. If Ukraine had signed that agreement, their polit

Manipulated is the right word. Turkey has been trying to get into the EU for 30 years and it is still waiting. If Ukraine had signed that agreement, their politicians would right now be churning out new laws every week and the country would likely to be even more up in arms about the vastness of the changes. And they still would have the same strict visa requirements to get into the EU to work because those don't even have to change when a country is an official member. Rumania and Bulgaria learned this when they became EU members and many countries implemented strict visa quotas that prevented these new Europeans from working in other EU countries. Anytime you read about a nationalist movement or an independence movement, someone is being manipulated. Independent nations are no longer possible in the modern world. Every country is now dependent on, and must cooperate with its neighbors. For Ukraine, that means its largest trading partner, Russia. Even the other EU countries are busy coming to all kinds of agreements, accords and treaties with Russia.