Beren wrote:Ukraine has belonged to Russia for centuries and they're almost identical culturally, so their corruption is almost identical too, although it may be worse in Ukraine because it's a periphery.
How come you're so pro-Russian, by the way?
I take the long view of Russia, yes, they have a very centralised form of government,but so what, in the U.K, Labour devolved power & look how that has ended up with little change for the people.
Part of that is because there is a corruption of our democracy by too much involvement with business & that has left people marginalised in that system.
That produces a reality in our lives that makes for very little difference between Eastern Europe & ourselves.
Additionally, Labour, which introduced devolution, is now arguing for centralisation, by wanting to remain in europe, where we will continue to be run by Brussels, that does not compute with democratic, or political logic.
But, with Russia, I acknowledge the people's role in defeating Nazism, something that politicians in the U.K have never fully recognised, neither have the U.S, simply because of western ideological opposition to the Russians.
Further to that, my political antenae twitch when I detect political idiots in the west doing their utmost to promote anti-Russian sentiment.
I am not blind to Russian actions in their own backyard, but if they are threatened, they will address the issue in any way they see fit, as for SKRIPAL, he got his just deserts, it's just a pity that there was colateral damage, to his daughter & others.
The West, through the E.U, the World Bank, the IMF, along with individual countries, have bankrolled the Ukraine with £ 100's BILLIONS of western taxpayers money that will never be recovered, money that will disappear into the pockets of the autocratic, corrupt Ukrainian politicians in government & I thoroughly dislike western hypocrisy when they have the nerve to call the Russian kettle black.