This sounds like stupid scaremongering from Yanukovitch. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Two drivers are behind this: > financial - the East isn't keen on redistributing its wealth with the West > military - Russian speakers (and Russia proper) are worried that the Western leaning Tymoshenko is intent on shutting the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea and integrating into NATO
Stupid or not, Yanukovich's posturing offers insight into the separatist political objectives of the Party of Regions, in particular now that Tymoshenko was voted in as PM by the Vrhovna Rada (by a 1 vote margin).
