Darkness Looms Over Ukraine’s Neighborhood: With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, no country in the EU’s Eastern neighborhood can feel secure about its future. Strengthening the resilience of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova must become the union’s immediate priority.
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Armenia? They are Russian allies, even asked for their help in the conflict with Azerbaidjan.
Azerbaidjan would need to be a democracy first. Don’t think it’s going to happen.
Georgia has a lot of work to do. Their government it’s pretty corrupt, suppresses press and minorities. Maybe they will be able to join in 5-10 years.
Moldova it’s the closest one. The government is very pro-EU, many people already live in EU through their romanian citizenship and there’s also the option of an union with Romania. They still have to handle somehow the Transnistria issue and continue reforming their institutions but they have a real chance to join EU in the next 5 years.
The fact that Lukashenko’s map wasn’t used by the West as an immediate justification for more direct intervention has emboldened Putin.
In fact, the fact that the West is afraid of sending troops to a country Russia has absolutely no legal jurisdiction over, and whose leader has requested them to come, has emboldened Putin. Intervention in Ukraine isn’t an invasion of Russian territory. Putin doesn’t actually have a leg to stand on here. The West’s reticence is like acknowledging that Ukraine is rightfully Russian property.
We all know that the sanctions are damaging to Russia, but they’re not going to work quickly enough, and the Russian protests are small compared to Russia’s overall population. Russia will get Ukraine at this rate, and if they do, and the world sees that the West’s strongest economic sanctions couldn’t stop it…
As Azerbaijani fuck EU! We good alone