desire such an outcome, however.

Be afraid of that which you wish.

confrontation. Neo doo doo heads herein the USA also want a bloody outcome.

"Neo doo doo heads" herein right here amongst us.

between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine.

It shows that Putin has a bunch of thugs working for him.

by the hoards of neo-nazi, nationalists that were en-route from Ukraine.

You should have started paying attention to this situation about 3 weeks ago.

There have been some DUers that have gone that far, and so it's hard to tell satire from sincerity.

help defend Crimea from "hoards of neo-nazi, nationalists that were en-route from Ukraine"? Your hordes are imaginary. What Russian citizens? Crimea is part of Ukraine, not Russia. If the Russian troops wanted to defend Russian citizens, they should be in Russia, where the citizens are. And you don't protect anyone by beating up journalists. Yours is one of the most bizarre claims I've seen from a long-term DUer - on any subject.

be in agreement if you don't care to review the build-up to the Kiev coup d'éta.

As far as the "Yours is one of the most bizarre claims I've seen from a long-term DUer - on any subject. "...

Right back at you. I'm appalled and saddened by those just drooling to go to war the Russia over a piece of land we have no interest in.

I refuse to believe it is a real comment a rational person would make.

what would happen if there was an attempt to arrest these invaders for trespassing? Don't shoot them. Would that be an act of war greater than blowing past a barricade and invading a military base. Any reasonable person would expect to be arrested if they did that. Crimea is still under Ukraine jurisdiction until and unless the referendum goes through. They have the right to have military bases there.

So Sebastopol announced elections on 3/17 or 3/18. I forget the precise date.

Then the city council voted unilaterally to join Russia.

The Ukrainian court in Kiev ruled the city council out of line. No enforcement mechanism, does anybody care?


Aksyonov and his group declared that Ukrainian troops in the Crimea are "occupiers." Does that make them occupiers? If so, then they're squatters, an invading force and should be driven out. If not, then this was an assault by fascist invaders on a Ukrainian military base.


Or perhaps Aksyonov has no legitimacy? After all, the "not quite Russians" moved in, parliament met, and a couple of hours later a minor politician in a mostly ignored political party suddenly was appointed in charge. The only thing that seems to matter was the close alignment between the troops' and Aksyonov's views--that his political platform was precisely reunification with Russia, while pro-Russian troops were outside the room. Pacificistically holding assault rifles.