Yep, I know perfectly well that Ukraine is corrupted, almost bankrupt country that wasted away last 25 years before current totally-not-war. Guess which country historically and currently contributed greatly to that state?
The onset of corruption and oligarchization happened in Ukraine in the 1990s,
Because Ukraine was clean and least corrupted country in world under Soviet rule before '90s.
Ukraine got out of Russia's yoke already in state of dispair thanks to - among other things - moronic economic system that holded it (and rest of Soviet bloc) back for few decades. Difference is that some post-Soviet countries fared way, way better (like mine) than other. Ukraine just... dithered.
Maybe Putin
Maybe I wrote "country", not "Putin". Reading comprehension and all of that.
and issueing dumb laws like banning hammer and sickle, comparing it with nazi swastikas. EU doesn't like that.
Ahahahaha. Do you really think this particular thing is problem?
Somehow Germany don't have problem with banning nazi symbols, it would be hypocritical to fuss over bans of communism symbols.
As a result, more and more EU countries are becoming sick and tired of Ukraine,
This kind of stance is pretty much betrayal in my eyes. Ukraine pays dearly for its wish to join EU, adopting west values and getting out of russian sphere of influence in general. I consider Russian agression on Ukraine as indirect agression against west and its values.
So I find reaction of EU on whole
Ukrainian-Russian conflict and it's appeasement policy* towards Putin extremely dissapointing and suicidally pathetic. This may became EU's existential threat in medium term. But I guess as long as certain EU countries can trade and make money with Russia, everything will be okay. Certain spineless leaders (like Obama, Merkel von Chamberlain or Holland) can delude themself it will end with Ukraine and they will weather it out.
At any rate, the EU is trying to build one nation state.
Yes, and that pretty unique experiment - trying to create bigger political entity consensually, without conquest and bloodshed - now looks pretty doubtful, both for internal and external reasons. Shame.
Meanwhile,
new shitstorm in Macedonia is brewing on horizon... will it be just tempest in teapot or Balkan Powder Keg Bis?
* Already tried once some time ago. Guess what, it didn't worked.