Put the Crimea in Russia Custody With Ukrainian Movement West

The Ukrainian problem is an historically recurrent phenomenon. A nice place away from the center of anything with beach front property it has often been divided by great powers or cut in deals to bring peace temporary or lasting for a while longer. V.I. Lenin gave the Ukraine to Germany in the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in order to back out of the First World War that was regarded as a battle royal (Kaisers vs. Romanovs, Hapsburgs, and Windsors etc.).
 


The Ukraine has been inhabited by human beings for at least 40,000 years according to the Wikipedia article on its history. The first horse was domesticated in the Ukraine. It's been domestically ruled by as many as three ruling clans at any given time such as Mongols, Lithuanians and Russians, Poles, Germans, Austrians and Hungarians.. Ukrainians sometimes revolt or have nuclear plant meltdowns; it's just the way things are.


 


The first ruler of the Rus, about 975, was  a Verangian/Viking named Yaroslav who looked like Hulk Hogan's great great great etc. The Rus of Kiev were a little disorganized and so they asked the distant warrior to be their king, he consented and the succession of a million little princlings followed with each getting a smaller piece of the inheritance pie. By the time in the 19th century when Fedor Dostoyevsky wrote The Idiot about Prince Mishkin, many princes and nobles were landless and others had a few acres though some had much more). While Russia expanded and relocated the capitol north to Moscow later it was far from aloof politically speaking. Moscow was invaded and occupied for a year circa 1400 by Timur Lenk-a Turkicized Mongol of the Chagatai tribe and others of course (e.g. Napoleon, Hitler). Timur was debatably the greatest conqueror in world history and one of the most barbaric building literal towers of skulls here and there. He conquered Syria, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Georgia, much of Russia, India, the Caucasus and Lithuania amongst other places.


(http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/596358/Timur)


 


Stabilizing the Ukraine is good for east-west relations reducing tensions across the continent. It isn't a thing that Satan would want. With accentuation of the positive in ecospheric economic reform and with a more rational and less belligerent approach to military security the nations and Ukraine in particular can prosper better. Probably Russia should take the Crimea as part of Russia since it’s full of Rus and has been a Russian possession before while the Ukraine should enter the common market and be a member of N.A.T.O. if it wants do it can send troops to the next Afghanistan. Russians won't be jealous about that.


 


The Ukrainian should just get on with the realistic business of being ecospherically thoughtful Ukrainians again and work on taming the policy of non-renewable economic and ecosphere use to make it work for long-range sustainability inclusive of natural genetic diversity of flora and fauna. There is quite a vast left-wing and sometime flip-side right wing inertia toward networking and massification of everything pasteurizing logic and reason into a few commercial varieties that isn't very smart. Letting locals set their own moral values is as important and keeping intellectual freedom of expression and freedom of individual enterprise free from oppressive mobs. Good luck Ukraine.