RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 12, 2022 at 1:20 pm
(This post was last modified: March 12, 2022 at 1:33 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Absorbing Ukraine into Russia can be done in many ways. For example a strongly Russophile regime similar to the lukashenko regime in Belorus can make a nominally independent and neutral state effectively part of Russia for economic and military purposes. The integration could even go from de facto to de jure at a later date with some kind of treaty of federation.
Keep in mind USSR was technically not a unitary state but a federation of independent states sharing a common form of government. Internally the Soviet Union always portrayed itself as such. There was the Ukrainian Soviet socialist republic, the Russian Soviet soviet socialist republic, Belorussian Soviet socialistic republic, etc, etc, around 30 in total. And then there is the Union of Soviet socialist republics as the USSR. Civil, economic and Cultural events were mostly conducted under the name of the individual republics in the USSR, and relatively few were conducted under the “all Union” context.
So Putin would likely find a renewal of the Soviet arrangement entirely satisfactory.
Keep in mind USSR was technically not a unitary state but a federation of independent states sharing a common form of government. Internally the Soviet Union always portrayed itself as such. There was the Ukrainian Soviet socialist republic, the Russian Soviet soviet socialist republic, Belorussian Soviet socialistic republic, etc, etc, around 30 in total. And then there is the Union of Soviet socialist republics as the USSR. Civil, economic and Cultural events were mostly conducted under the name of the individual republics in the USSR, and relatively few were conducted under the “all Union” context.
So Putin would likely find a renewal of the Soviet arrangement entirely satisfactory.
