(July 27, 2014 at 12:36 am)Alice Wrote:(July 26, 2014 at 7:35 pm)CristW Wrote: It is NOT inspiring to see Putin re-establish the czar system. Totalitarianism either in the form of a czar or stalinistic system will not help Russia and would create more instability throughout the region.
It'd be quite impressive, hence its being pulled off is inspiring. Perhaps not to you, but if there's one thing CCCP could do: it's maintain order. If he married the systems together, it'd be very interesting.
You may be right, since the Chinese communist party was able to maintain some kind of relative order but they liberalized their market to foreign competition. In the case of Russia, the situation calls for the liberalization of the political structure. In other words, away from the conservative order(monarchy/czar system) and to a more liberalized order(separation of powers and responsibility). Yet, again even if "liberalized" the problem of nationalism is an issue or problem.
The epicenter of the problem is now really at the Ukrainian government. The Ukrainians could have called for a FEDERAList system(National government / individual state government interaction). Donetsk could have been simply a state within the Ukrainian Federal republic! Of course, a state which could develop its own characteristics without separating from Ukraine. The same could been done for Crimea. I do not understand how the Ukrainian missed this issue unless they were looking at the German federal system rather than the United States federal system?