Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
Sometimes even a blind chicken finds some corn, as we say here.
So Gilrandir is a blind chicken?

Nice.

Well, if he is he's someone surrounded by corn in your analogy.

Why do I have to want something? I said I applaud this effort and that's it. I do not want anything from them at this point.

The administration in East Germany was East German and now it is just German, although what is now German is closer to what West Germany was like since we basically bought East Germany. So are you saying that Ukraine should get West German ministers or just that native Ukrainians are unable to implement western-style administration and that they have to hire foreigners to get that?
We all want something from this conflict, even if it's for it not to spread. With regards to East/West Germany what actually happened is that West Germany peacefully annexed East Germany. Today's federal German Government is the West German one.

This bears on Ukraine because all post-Communist countries are struggling to root out corruption, the restrictive anti-wealth Communist framework embedded it. Without legitimate ways to get rich people found illegitimate ones. Importing technocrats from other countries is as much about the whole government as it is about those ministries. It says two things.

1. If Russia is going to semi-covertly insert it's people into positions of power in the rebel regions we are going to overtly bring people Russia will object to into our government.

2. It says that the Ukrainian Executive can replace someone who is corrupt with someone else.