Ukraine (Socialist Progressives Group) [View all]

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Bringing this over via a poster named "Comrade" who wrote an interesting post re Ukraine at another forum I frequent. This is beyond the resistance party, departing president, and all of that. He thinks a split may be happening in Ukraine and explains the breakdown.


He posits the following:

1, the Western Ukraine (technically northwestern on the map) is heavily pro-EU/pro-NATO.

2, the southern and eastern regions are heavily pro-Russia.

3, the central area (technically north-central on the map) is probably 50/50.

Around half of the country’s population lives in the south and the east, so most of the country's total population is pro-Russia. However, the problem is that, as far as I know, the Party of Regions and the Communist Party only have combined majorities in the regional governments in the south and east (the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk, Zaporozhia, Dnyepropetrovsk, Odessa, Nikolayev, and Kherson oblasts). So when the country breaks up it will probably only be the eastern and southern oblasts that form the new pro-Russia country.

Here is a map of the Ukraine from Wikipedia, the blue areas will likely form a new pro-Russia country and be free from NATO and the EU: