Not one of the Soviet Union's 15 purely internal, cobbled together units of mere administrative convenience was in any sense a country.
Nowhere should have agreed to have recognised them as sovereign states. Everywhere knew what would happen. That is now happening.
There is now more chance of Russia's ever getting into NATO than there is of Ukraine's. But then, there always was.
Not that Russia stood much of a chance, even had she had the desire to join. But Ukraine, like Georgia, stood even less chance than that then, and stands none at all now.
Ukraine and Belarus were members of the United Nations when they were still part of the Soviet Union, at the insistence of the government of the Soviet Union. Plus the Soviet constitution granted every republic the right to leave. Its grossly inaccurate to term them "units of administrative convenience".
ReplyDeleteNo, that was what they were. Hence those UN seats purely to suit internal Soviet politicking.
ReplyDeleteAs for a right of secession, imagine if any of them had tried to exercise it while the USSR had still existed. Well, there you are, then.
They are not proper counties, any of them. That does not make them illegitimate. But it does mean that they won't last, and that there is no point in investing anything in their doing so.