>>17039507Interesting and smart answer, I can see why you feel that way, even more with the current events and the post-2014 regime change.
Personally I would tend to think otherwise, as a Westerner (who have seen both Ukraine and Russia), I have witnessed my country be thrown under the bus countless of times by the US, and learning history I have only learned that it always happened throughout history to other nations as well. Currently, it is your nation that is being thrown under the bus by corrupt oligarchs, weapon conglomerates and money laundering, something that never happened under Russia's rule (except during 2WW but the whole nation was impacted and it was different, and not really Russia's rule).
I think the EU is structured like the USSR, impossible to reform and that any private property and innovation is highly strangled by retarded laws, high taxes and cost of living and privatization of the most important states' asset in favor of despotic organization (I don't think we're less corrupt, we just name it differently). Only good thing we have is infinite money to buy random shit, but at the cost of our way of life, our culture, our nation and our strategic influence on every domains.
Of course, it might benefit Ukraine in the first few years of it, but soon enough the cold-hard reality of the US leash will leave its marks. US destroyed the whole European economic miracle in both 1929 and 1973. I don't think it is worth your culture, your way of life and your strategic assets (and I'm not even talking about your demographics)
