If Ukraine has a nationalist 'manifest destiny', then perhaps it was well expressed by Dmytro Korchnysky, former leader of the UNA-UNSO, who stated in 1998:
'Ukraine can exist only as a dragon, with its tail in the Far East, its heart in the Caucasus, and its head in the Balkans' (Andrew Wilson The Ukrainians 2009)
In Ukrainian mythology, dragons sometimes have many heads. Perhaps this one also has a head in Washington?
Lionel Reynolds writes the www.dispatchesfromempire.com blog
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