We may have a break in the drama but there is still far to go before the end of this crisis.
On a separate note, compare the Ukraine to Syria. Here the sides are clearly defined and the idea of devolving into civil war is still something that is feared by all sides (even though it is still a real possibility). The nature of the culture as well as the political systems is different enough to potentially keep that from happening.Throughout the crisis in Ukraine, experts real and imagined have persistently invoked the country's vaunted East-West "divide." According to this interpretation, Ukraine is neatly divided into two homogeneous, coherent, and irreconcilable blocs. The implicit message is that partition is inevitable and desirable. As Viktor Yanukovych fled Kiev for the pro-Russian and "separatist" Kharkiv on Feb. 22, analysts feared he would ignite a civil war between Ukraine's irreconcilable factions. But as is often the case with such binary oppositions, they conceal and obfuscate more than they reveal and clarify, creating a simplistic image of a complex condition.
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