tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953365761357041577.post1987042831376361858..comments2024-02-14T04:40:46.512-08:00Comments on ABC-CLIO Blog: Ukrainian Crisis & Its ImplicationsABC-CLIOhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14986377337720555190noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4953365761357041577.post-46855938248771572672014-06-20T14:50:28.883-07:002014-06-20T14:50:28.883-07:00"... Signing this agreement would have helped..."... Signing this agreement would have helped progress Ukraine economically and politically ..." well, when we look at the past IMF loans to Ukraine, we can see that these were growing ever larger and at ever shorter intervals. That cooperation with the EU, which has yet to show it can bail out tiny Greece, while most of its major players are teetering on bankruptcy, would have helped the Ukraine "significantly" can now never be proven or disproven, but I believe that a lot of the crisis had to do with EU and NATO power politics that irked the Russians more than some US and EU politicians, who, unlike Putin who speaks at least one foreign language, and has served abroad, don't know much about international politics, would understand.CrisisMavenhttp://crisismaven.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com