Twenty international policy experts were asked by the Carnegie Europe the same question: Is Ukraine a Lost Cause? All of them answered no. Following are the most common views, expressed by the experts:
- "Ukraine is a lost cause only if looked at through the lens of unrealistic Western expectations"
- "The country’s problems accumulated over the course of many, many years. They will take decades to overcome"
- "Ukraine is in a democratic transition, and transitions take time"
- "Ukraine remains locked in crisis. Beyond the ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern Donbas region, reforms are stalled, corruption remains endemic, and institutions are deadlocked"
- "Ukraine is moving forward with reforms, but at a slow pace"
- "...the progress of the last two years has shown that when Ukrainians stand together, no kleptocrat, oligarch, or foreign power can stop them"
- "The strength of Ukraine lies in its parallel civic state, not its legal state"
- "The main risk for Ukraine’s survival was and is Russia"
- "The failure of Ukraine ...would accelerate the unraveling of European security, marked by Russia’s manipulation of territorial conflicts to destabilize Eastern Europe for years to come"
- "The wise support of Western powers is now critical for Ukraine’s development as a free European polity".
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- "Ukraine is a lost cause only if looked at through the lens of unrealistic Western expectations"
- "The country’s problems accumulated over the course of many, many years. They will take decades to overcome"
- "Ukraine is in a democratic transition, and transitions take time"
- "Ukraine remains locked in crisis. Beyond the ongoing conflict in the country’s eastern Donbas region, reforms are stalled, corruption remains endemic, and institutions are deadlocked"
- "Ukraine is moving forward with reforms, but at a slow pace"
- "...the progress of the last two years has shown that when Ukrainians stand together, no kleptocrat, oligarch, or foreign power can stop them"
- "The strength of Ukraine lies in its parallel civic state, not its legal state"
- "The main risk for Ukraine’s survival was and is Russia"
- "The failure of Ukraine ...would accelerate the unraveling of European security, marked by Russia’s manipulation of territorial conflicts to destabilize Eastern Europe for years to come"
- "The wise support of Western powers is now critical for Ukraine’s development as a free European polity".
Read more at http://carnegieeurope.eu/
