The geopolitics in Ukraine are quite different though. Right now they're focusing two things: a) maintaining control over as much territory as possible, given

The geopolitics in Ukraine are quite different though. Right now they're focusing two things: a) maintaining control over as much territory as possible, given Russia's original goals [1] and the huge importance a land-bridge to Crimea has to Russia (imagine having to ship water, food and oil for 2.5mln people by sea.) b) preventing a Georgia-style frozen conflict, which is Russia's preferred technique of destabilization lately. It seems they have only just given up on b) but they're still working very hard on a). Either way; I doubt there are many parallels with Scotland at this stage of the conflict. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novorossiya