Donetsk wrote:What kind of sick mind determines whether his land is worth fighting for based on a potential cash flow? A Western European one? I kind of doubt it, really. May be that's the way in Texas, I dunno.
While at it , mind reminding me when Bulgaria and Romania are supposed to get a " Western European life"? From what I know, life is pretty much shit there. They needed a war to reach Kiev by quality of life.
A mind that is not trapped by Russian thinking, which you so eloquently display in that second statement.
You find excuses for your suffering by relating to someone else that is suffering more. That's not how Western thought works. My suffering is not made any better, not even the TINIEST amount better, if I find someone else or make someone else suffer more. Not. One. Bit. The incompetence of the government of Ukraine is staggering; and it is inflicting suffering on Western Ukraine in order to make Eastern Ukraine suffer more. You guys belong with Russia till you get this diseased thought process out of your heads.
If you want to live a European life; wall off Donbas, forget that it exists, and make a statement to the UN that you entirely intend to reassert control, with force if necessary, once you've remedied the disfunctional economy that exists in Ukraine in general. You can start by assessing a *massive* property&wealth tax (oneoff); no exemptions, no exclusions. You *must* defang your warlord/oligarchs.
If you guys continue to pursue the path you are on now; Western Ukraine will become Europe's Somalia. Such is the natural progression of Warlord'ism.