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Well, Ukraine is a place of plains, which makes it a good place to develop agriculture and industries, but the lack of mountain and big river makes it a bad place to defense, which makes it a front of different cultures. There’s a saying in China that Ukraine means “borderland” in Ukrainian.
In addition, this country comes from the wars between Russia and Poland, causing the country culturally “mixed” or “divided”. In my view, the country is half west slav and half east slav. Just like the religious there. Half catholic and half orthodox.
I think the best solution for such country in the middle of cultures is to be friend with both sides. This is also what your president now working at. But joining EU is a “choosing side” behavior.
However, EU is a little bit Germanic centered, in which East Slav and orthodox is regarded as “heresy”. And the economic problem is the biggest problem in EU. Even PIGS and Greek was troublesome. I don’t think French and German would like to take over the conflicting country. What’s worse, Russian and Germany has less contradiction than agreement. North stream 2 makes me think that Germany loves Russian natural gas more than Ukraine.

>>1106
>There’s a saying in China that Ukraine means “borderland” in Ukrainian.
That's a well-known fact. Every slav speaker knows that.

>>1106
>There’s a saying in China that Ukraine means “borderland” in Ukrainian.
That’s not true. Ukraine means “land”, more specifically - “a country”. It’s from Slavic word krajina (a country), and “kraj” - land.

>>1136
Thats what krai or kraina means. But if you add "U"?