The problems started when the author resorted to the national characteristics type of analysis. The Georgian mountain folk with fiery tempers discussion sounds more like it comes out a review of the Hills Have Eyes than an educated article on International Relations. Then the author offers up this list of compatriots who have turned against each other, "the Croats and Serbs, the Union and Confederacy, Iraqi Sunnis and Iraqi Shiites". Next he is going to tell us that the Joker and Batman are great friends who had a falling out or that the French and the English have always sustained a peaceful productive relationship. Then he goes on to act as if this elder statesman of Ukraine had answered his honest question in a defensive manner. In fact I doubt that he was offended by the question as much as the stupidity of the question. Of course Ukraine is not Georgia. Everything Mr. Tarasyuk said is blatantly obvious to anyone with a passing knowledge of the situation. An attack by Russia on Ukraine would be far different than the attack on Georgia was both in the response of the international community and Ukraine's ability to defend itself. The Russians would be fools to attack the Ukrainians. They won't. Instead they will continue with the annual antagonizing over natural gas and trying to meddle in the internal affairs of Ukraine.