Why Novorussia will never again accept Kiev’s rule (REVISED)

[O]ver the past couple of days I have spend a lot (too lot) of time dealing with the immediate issues such as the dying (or already defunct?) ceasefire agreement.  Whatever importance one can give to this document and its meaning (or lack thereof), it is important not go get bogged down and do what the French call “avoir le nez dans le guidon” (to “have your nose in the handlebars” of a bike – not to see where the road is leading you).

Whenever I look at where our road is leading us I always come to the very same conclusion: it is my belief that Novorussia will never accept anything less than de-facto independence from Kiev.

Sure, this independence might be piously ‘concealed’ behind a thin layer of symbolic Ukrainian unity, but there is simply no way that Kiev will ever have real, effective, authority over Novorussia again.  I think that even Russia will have to accept that, however reluctantly.

Now I heard that Poroshenko has made a major political statement today and that he declared that the Donbass might have some “special status”, but that this would most definitely NOT be any type of federalization and that no DPR (Donetsk People’s Republic) or LPR (Lugansk People’s Republic) will ever be recognized by Kiev.  I applaud Poroshenko for making that unambiguously clear statement as this only reinforces my deeply held conviction that both Novorussia and Russia proper have no other solution that regime change in Kiev.  Although as this point in time this might appear an impossible task to complete, the Ukraine must be (and will be!) completely de-Nazified before any form of peace can return.

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