"Materially, the West has done little to help us. Not only has there never been a Marshall Plan for Ukraine, there has never even been a discussion of a Marshall Plan," [the historian Orest Laleniuk] complained. "Sometimes, Western governments seem more interested in Chernobyl, AIDS, and the work of Western NGOs in our land, than helping Ukraine become a real country with real laws and a real economy," added the usually pro-Western Korrespondent magazine. Seven years after a group of Western nations promised Ukraine 1.2 billion dollars to help clean up still-radioactive territory around Chernobyl and develop clean electricity sources, less than 20 per cent of the cash has been handed over, the magazine noted.
Maybe Jerome prefers to talk about the great things the EU did for Yugoslavia or maybe how prescient it was that Iraq was drawn without a deep water port, or how the Kurds did not really need a nation. Gawd this premise is nonsense. Hal C.
As to the rest, what can I say? Yugoslavia is not the greatest page in Europe's history, but at least, it is mostly peaceful now, after Europe, with the USA's help, finally took responsibility for the sorry mess.
As to saying that what we do today is bad because of what happened a century ago, I'm sorry, that's just a silly argument. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
