03-30-2022, 09:58 AM
The outcome of the war in Bosnia was its division into two federal states - a Croat-Muslim Federation, and the Republika Srpska (whose number one export appears to be postage stamps).
What is the possibility of essentially the same outcome in Ukraine? A Ukrainian Federation, encompassing most of the country's territory, and a Russian Autonomous Oblast, consisting of Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, and Kharkiv?
After all, the origin of both wars is the same: A Communist tyrant - Tito in Yugoslavia's case, Khrushchev in the Soviet Union's - arbitrarily redrawing the internal borders of both countries, marooning millions of people in the "wrong" republic.
What is the possibility of essentially the same outcome in Ukraine? A Ukrainian Federation, encompassing most of the country's territory, and a Russian Autonomous Oblast, consisting of Crimea, Donbas, Luhansk, and Kharkiv?
After all, the origin of both wars is the same: A Communist tyrant - Tito in Yugoslavia's case, Khrushchev in the Soviet Union's - arbitrarily redrawing the internal borders of both countries, marooning millions of people in the "wrong" republic.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892