I agree with the writer the the situation in Ukraine is a chance for a new beginning, but I find the article one sided.

It seems to ignore that a large population of the Ukraine is Russian speaking and feel closer to Russia than to Europe.

It is a precarious situation which could lead to a breakup or even military confrontation that could explode into a much larger conflict if we do not evaluate and solve the problem with sensitivity and a new vision.

There is basically no region, country or even city which is not comprised of very different, many times hateful fractions, only kept together by prosperity, or a larger force suppressing their separatism.

As the global crisis is cutting deeper, those "external" forces, "sweetening" keeping these very shaky alliances are exposed and easily incited into unrest, or even revolution.

We have been seeing it all through the Middle East, in South America, Thailand, now in the Ukraine, and this process is unlikely to stop as the global crisis seems unsolvable.

The solution both for the fragile situations like in the Ukraine, and for the global crisis is the same.

We have to start viewing the global world as the name suggest, global, integral, in other words interconnected and interdependent.

Instead of thinking in terms of isolation, separation, exploiting the situation for self-calculating purposes, we need to see a single, united system comprised of many, different, unique parts, where each part could insert its uniqueness into the whole building a beautiful mosaic that is quantitatively much more evolved then the same picture where the parts are separated.

Instead of competition, opposition, oppression, exploitation we need complementing cooperation.

Human existence in a mutual, global, integral way could break through into a dimension we haven't even dreamed about before.

At present we are killing ourselves as cancer cells as we cannot even fathom working together above and despite our differences, rejection, even hatred.

We cannot delete, wipe out what is separating us but we can learn how to build something mutually above it and the attraction of the prosperity, safety, peace and sustainability in such a state is unprecedented, unheard of.

So in the case of the Ukraine instead of trying to meddle in their business, trying to exploit the situation for any personal or national or even regional gain we should think about how to use this unique opportunity to build a bridge in between Europe and Russia, and all the other neighboring nations given the Ukraine's unique position.