Judge it!
I think that in this vulnerable situation it would be tantamount to suicide to offer NATO membership to Georgians before they make peace with their enemies in their fight they themselves had picked.
We, Europeans should not give in to Russian and American warmongering: we have nothing to gain but everything to lose. Let's occupy the middle ground.
A Prayer for Hetman Mazepa
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But Mazeppa was a Polish guy, wasn't he?
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Mazepa was born circa 1639 near Bila Tserkva, then a part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, into a noble family. He was educated first in the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, then at a Jesuit college in Warsaw and abroad. From 1659 he served at the court of the Polish king, John II Casimir.
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And it is also true that ethnicity was trickier in the Middle Ages than it is now (take the Polish national hero Jeremi Wisniowiecki for example, who was also of Ruthenian descent, but adopted Catholicism and became "Polonized"). I am however, aware of the fact that a large territory of former Eastern Poland (like Volhynia) was inhabited by Ruthenians and not by Poles.
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