Thursday, February 20, 2014

The Eurasian Economic Union is due to be finalized in a constitution in 2015. Currently, the permanent participants are Belarus, Russia and Kazakstan. The other nations here are expected to be a part of of the economic cooperative.

The people of the Ukraine believe the chance of having their 2004 constitution is mostly gone and the chances of it returning to a democracy they wanted is disappearing quickly. It is why the violence is nearly intractable at this point.

The Ukrainian constitution of 2004 is not a threat to the ambitions of the Eurasian Economic Union. When the EU formed no country had to compromise their own constitutions or sovereign status in order to find cooperation with other nations in developing their own currency and stability. 

The Ukrainian people wanted to be a part of Europe and they believe it is being taken away from them. I fear for them. I believe they have reached a tipping point.