Without a war, with no political legality, but with a token Russian army, Putin has aroused and won over the support of ethnic Russians living in Ukraine, which includes also Crimea.
The USA and the EU have clearly stated that they do not want Ukraine to be split into Western Ukraine with the East being absorbed into Russia. This may be the "Wish of the West" but blood and kinship cannot be ignored !
In fact, Western Ukraine revolted against its former Russian ethnic President Yanukovytch, who chose a pan-Russian solution for Ukraine with Putin, instead of joining the EU as the ethnic Ukrainians really wanted and had expected.
After the collapse of the URSS in 1991 at least 10 satellite countries (including Ukraine) recovered their National Independence and almost all are now in the EU !
What Putin really wants is security for his Russian fleet in the Black Sea and to continue selling Siberian Gas via the Ukrainian Pipeline outlets. Putin does not really want the Financial Costs of reorganising a bankrupt Western Ukrainian economy, particularly as the Russian Rouble is also unstable !
Does this not mean that Western Diplomats need to adopt a new strategy ? Putin's objectives seem to be clear ! A new Game of Political Chess could start !
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