Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Sounds like one of master strategist putins fever dreams to me.  The only way a russophile ukraine emerges now is if every single living ukranian is exterminated.  Even the "breakaway regions" that russia absorbed are tired of their shit.

Russophile on this context means aligning its policies to ensure it is not seen as security or economic liability for Russia,  as Finland had done between 1945 and 1991, not as in fondness for things Russian.     

The difference between Finland and Ukraine is Finland was ethnically homogeneous and politically unified, well informed, realistic and mature.   So it had no fevered illusions about its ability to oppose Soviet will and get away with infringing on Soviet Union’s self-perceived security interests, and still form a common domestic understanding in finland that western and Soviet rhetoric aside, an independent economic and domestic policy, and a functionally independent democratic domestic government is feasible without making itself seem an economic or security liability to the Soviet Union.     

Ukraine on the other hand lacks every aspect of political maturity, intellectual honesty, sincerity of political parties, avoidance of ideological showboating, to be able to form such a sophisticate and realistic national outlook and follow its dictates.     So a Necessary Russophile government in Ukraine, unlike a finlandized government in Finland, will be a kleptocratic government that domestically aligns with Moscow and uses threat, coercion, and corruption in handing out rewards to sustain its own power.