Russia and Ukraine

[The Architect Of Fate]

He sounds conciliatory, suggesting that at some (unspecified) point in the future relations with Russia should be repaired. He points out, correctly, that Russia is a European country.

The propaganda ever since the Cold War has tried to paint Russia as alien. But anyone who has read the literature sees how its culture is European. The upper classes in Dostoevsky, for example, speak French at home. (And some English translations put the Russian into English while leaving the French -- assuming we'll be able to read it.) Nabokov's memoirs of his childhood show how connected his family was to the rest of Europe -- vacationing on the Mediterranean, employing English- and French-speaking nannies for him and his brother.

Tell that to Russia 

Inter-European wars have been pretty common, but eventually the businessmen want to re-establish trade. Russia has too much oil and gas to ignore forever.

They done a good job not taking tainted oil so far 

I suspect that when the military industrial complex finds another shiny object to dangle in front of us, Merz and others will walk away from Ukraine (as Trump seems to want to do) and it will be left to its fate. Just as the US did with Afghanistan.

Just in your dreams, Kremlin Gremlin