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The original Open Asia article is on archive.org : https://web.archive.org/web/20160125040849/http://openasia.asia/ukraine-as-a-solution-rethinking-living-with-russia-for-europe-1311

There is a comment under that archived article by Shiping Tang on June 26, 2014. It reads as follows:

As the author of this piece, I feel much sadness that my prediction (or warning) came to become reality, and even elites in Ukraine could not grasp the dire situation their country faced (before the war), until the wham on their face.

Here is John Mearsheimer’s reply after reading this piece. “Wow! This is a great piece, and to think you wrote it in 2009. It is so amazing that you could not get the piece published. That speaks volumes about the state of the discourse about foreign policy in the West.“

John and I do not agree with each other on many things, but this time, we agree with each other completely.

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Thank you for sharing this 2009 article - so prescient! After the two Minsk 'agreements'; the Istanbul- and other attempts at settlement, one can only say that Russia tried - EU and US not so much!

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