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The Ukraine and the two new republics should consider Free Association:
This would include:
1.The right to Work.
2.The right to Reside.
3.Equal rights.
4.If Political rights.
5.And Human rights.
This would be possible, even if the two new republics decide to request annexation
by Russia sometime in the future, which they may never do. If so, two possibilities would be that while both the Ukraine and Russia could use both the
republics, people residing in the republics would have both the Ukraine and Russia, if they had lived in the new republic for a period of years, or else as of
a certain date and/or were descendants.
Perhaps in the future, the EU and the EAEU will each have each other anyway. Russia is part of Europe, and not Arabia. We are not nations of eternal war, and
wish to see peace through a united Europe.
Norway and Iceland are not in the EU, but have a separate EFTA - European Free Trade Association, which has the EU:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Free_Trade_Association
The U.S. has a Compact of Free Association with the Marshall islands, Micronesia,
and Palau:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association
Additionally, as a token of good will, the Russians can perhaps put Crimea in Free
Association with the Ukraine as well. Or, more extremely, the entirety of Russia
could be in Free Association with the Ukraine, while the Ukraine joins the EU. The
second idea would perhaps entail a little more border and immigration issues at the Ukrainian borders.
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