this was actually the first thing that crossed my mind when this shit erupted. you'll see it if you scroll down a bit.

http://www.businessinsider.com/putin-offered-to-partition-ukraine-with-poland-2014-10

"He went on to say Ukraine is an artificial country and that Lwow is a Polish city and why don’t we just sort it out together."

not poland, exactly. but nato. poland here is a euphemism for nato; poland does not have an independent foreign policy, as it is not a sovereign state.

poles are moving up in the world though, eh?