Fat chance. Ukrainians favor a closer union with Russia over NATO (even EU) membership by a factor of 3 to 1. The only "pro-Western" segment of Ukrainian society is in the rural western third of the country, which not by coincidence is not historically part of Ukraine or Ukrainian culture, but rather a heavily Polish region grafted on by Stalin.
I think it's mostly bluster, actually. It's not like either Obama or McCain could say anything else.
--- On Wed, 10/8/08, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> What is really scary, though, and what no one I have heard
> discuss has remarked, is that both candidates, including
> BHO, want to get the former Soviet Republics, including
> Ukraine, into NATO. For people -- both McCain and BHO -- who
> sday they don't want to start a new cold war, that is a
> pretty strange way to go about it, because that is exactly
> what surrounding Russia with NATO countries, some of which
> used to be sister Republics and share extended borders with
> Russia, would do.
>
> I do trust that the Russians will continue to be stable and
> cool-headed and not start shooting, but they will reignite
> the arms race, and we, of course, will "have" to
> respond, and we will back in the pre-perestroika era with
> the great power politics of the 19th century. That will be
> extremely expensive for countries that, like us, can't
> afford it, and extremely dangerous in terms is raising the
> geopolitical military temperature fought, if people are sane
> about it, through proxy wars. One doesn't really want
> top have to start thinking (again)( aboout what it means if
> they are not sane.
>