Why Ukraine Matters to Europe, Asia and the Middle East

[Reality Check]

The impact of what is happening in the Ukraine, will have a huge impact on Armenia, Georgia, Moldavia and Russia, and that in turn will have a large impact on Europe, the Middle East and Asia for decades, a century or perhaps until the next World War, and it may impact who wins the next World War.

Ukraine is the largest country in Europe, by land area, with the exception of the European portion of Russia. Ukraine also has the most productive farm land in Europe, and vast amounts of this productive farm land making it the bread basket of western Eurasia.

Ukraine is a country with more people than the combined population of Holland/Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

Ukraine is more populous than the European countries of Poland, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Holland/Netherlands, Norway, Switzerland, Serbia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Scotland, Ireland, Finland, Croatia, Belarus, Slovakia, Moldova, or Albania

Ukraine also has more people than Canada, Australia, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Taiwan, North Korea, Algeria, Niger, Kazakhstan, Cambodia, Cuba or Hati

Ukraine and Spain have approximately the same number of people, approximately 46 million each. Ukraine has 85% of the number of people in England, and 70% of the number of people in France.

The Ukraine has a very large border with both Poland and Romania to the West which is one reason we have seen Polish diplomats taking such a large role inside Kiev in the last few days, weeks and months. Ukraine also borders Hungary and Slovenia ( formerly part of Czechoslovakia ) on the west.

What is going to happen in Ukraine is still very much up in the air, with Russia and Belarus, the two countries with the largest borders with the Ukraine, not yet fully weighing in. These two countries have much to say about how Ukraine is going to turn out, both from a military and economic perspective.

The below linked article is an interesting analysis of what is happening in the Ukraine from the Russian, Armenian, Georgian and Moldavian point of view:

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/com ... 46751.html