Ukraine's Donbas Is Like America's Deep South
Category: WORLDPOST
The United States could eventually overcome Jim Crow laws because Washington was stronger than the Deep South. As long as Russia supports the Donbas Deep South -- and that is likely to be for a long time -- Ukraine will be too weak to grant it autonomy or to absorb it.
By Alexander Motyl, ContributorUkrainian-American Political Scientist, Rutgers University, 2015-01-05