Brussels could not understand the geopolitical implications, which carried in itself the realization of the project "Eastern partnership" in Ukraine, and has decided that it can ignore the wishes of Russia, says a researcher at the Australian Institute of international studies policy name Frank Lowy on the portal of the organization. some Experts in the West, he stresses, including historian from Yale University's Timothy Snyder, I believe that the key geopolitical confrontation because of the events happening in Ukraine between Russia and Europe, not between Moscow and Washington. Supporters of this interpretation, the European Union Seems harmless giant, sowing the seeds of democracy, and a more reasonable model of the capitalist machine than the USA. The analyst asks the question: what if one of the biggest crises of European security is the consequence of ill-conceived and misguided policies of the European Union? Australian journalist drew attention to the joint research work of political scientists Rajan Menon and Eugene Rumer, devoted to the Ukrainian crisis. The experts stress that the agreement on Association of Ukraine with the EU was of strategic importance for Brussels: one of the main tasks was to attempt to break the economic and political relations of Ukraine and Russia, while avoiding the potential risks associated with full-fledged membership of Ukraine in the European Union. "Independent Ukraine tried to sit on 2 chairs at once, benefiting from its own independence and the status of the former allied countries. This, together with the unresolved question of " Ukraine Is a state of the Ukrainian nation or the state for the people of Ukraine?" turned out to be a fundamental weakness of the state, which led to the schism between the Eastern and Western regions. It seems that Brussels was not able to realize how "flammable" Ukrainian politics and how fragile statehood of the state, " says the Analyst. in his vision, the Ukrainian conflict has increased from the internal contradictions between the objectives of the EU project " Eastern partnership ", and then project European Association of Ukraine. The adepts of the "Eastern partnership" - Sweden, Poland and the Baltic countries saw an informal buffer zone between the Eastern periphery of Europe and Russia in Ukraine, which should result in the Association with the EU would extend economic, cultural and political influence of Europe. "The European Union has set strict limits to the integration of Ukraine as soon as the" trade agreement ". A similar approach, the specialist believes, was fatal adventure and revealed the main vulnerability of the "Eastern partnership" - the naivety of European politicians, who, like Russia, historic, cultural, strategic and economic grounds for defending their own interests, will not pose obstacles to the transition of post-Soviet countries in the sphere of influence of Europe"