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Interference
by the United States and its NATO allies
in Ukraine’s civil struggle
has exacerbated the crisis within Ukraine,
undermined the possibility of bringing
the two easternmost provinces
back under Kyiv’s control,
and raised the specter of possible conflict
between nuclear armed powers.
Furthermore,
in denying that Russia
has a “right” to oppose extension
of a hostile military alliance
to its national borders,
the United States ignores its own history
of declaring and enforcing for two centuries
a sphere of influence in the Western hemisphere.
The fact is, Ukraine
is a state but not yet a nation.
In the thirty years of its independence,
it has not yet found
a leader who can unite its citizens
in a shared concept of Ukrainian identity.
Yes, Russia has interfered,
but it is not Russian interference
that created Ukrainian disunity
but rather the haphazard way
the country was assembled
from parts that were
not always mutually compatible.
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