Map Revisionism Excluding Russian Ukrainian Lands

Revising maps is a fact of history. Maps issue from history rather than vice versa. King Canute the  Viking might have had the political power to map the tide out when it was in yet ordinary folk don't. Russia has owned the Ukraine and Crimea for hundreds of years except when westerners invade and rewrite the maps. The most recent map or sycophant Prime Minister put in office is the one that counts for the new map makers of history.


The last fair map of Eastern Europe was the one made following the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I.  That map gave the Eastern Ukraine and Crimea to Russia and only snagged western Europe for the beligerant powers of the west. The Baltic Republics were free. Western leaders should qwuit fictionalizing Russian intentions to occupy free Baltic Republics as if they had the historical invasive patterns of Sweden or Germany.

It is worth remembering that it was Russia long ago that smashed the Swedish Empire of the north after Swedes invaded. Sweden had to give up Denmark and Norway and Finland I recall-some have been smoldering resentment since yearning to find the power to punch out Russia. Alfred Nobel invented dynamite perhaps thinking of invading Russia. Well, Nobel's work was ground breaking for the development of plastic explosives and other military munitions.

Russia only took Eastern European countries later in the act of kicking the German Nazi's out. Then they relinquished Eastern Europe voluntarily after a half century of occupation certain that the criteria for security had evolved away from the invade Russia again paradigm. One doesn't want to give back terrarity immediately after it was used to invade one's nation costing millions of lives in defense. It is wrong to expect Russia to yield the Eastern Ukraine or Crimea to opportunists after the people of Russia were able to evolve the end of Soviet Communism and Stalinism.

World War I ended the problem of European Empires largely although the Nazis sought to form a new sort of evil empire. U.S. leadership should respect the map made at the Treaty of Versailles as the legitamate article and enforce the borders with moral support instead of the recent post-Soviet revisionism.