[Tailgunner Joe]

Putin will bend over and take it just like he did last time when Yanukovich was overthrown by the Orange Revolution. Ukraine is not Georgia. Putin does not need to invade to keep his naval base and he doesn't need Ukraine's pipelines because he has the North Stream going directly to Germany. Putin only poses as a defender of “ethnic Russians” when he has something to gain. The Ossetians and Abkhazians he intervened in Georgia for are not even Russian, he just gave them Russian passports and made them Russian citizens. Actual Russians in Ukraine will be sold out by the treacherous gangster Putin because he doesn't need them. Just look at Yanukovich. Was Putin able to protect him? No. Yanukovich is learning the price of being the friend of KGB Putin. He has lost everything and now he has to flee to Russia and hide from his own countrymen who will kill him if the get their hands on him. Such will be the fate of all traitors who support Neo-Soviet Russia against their own country.

[dfwgator]

He can’t afford to get nothing out of it. I think Ukraine ceding the Crimea back to Russia is fair...considering the dubious reason it even became part of Ukraine in the first place.

[Cossak]

Yanukovich is not KGB friend as he fooled not once Putin an Russian - speaking electorate who voted for him. He is not welcomed in Russia, he is in Eastern Ukraine now and there is no place in the World for him to hide. His all allegiance was to his money and power only and he lost all. If benderovtsy will murder him of vengeance it will alert those Ukrainians who are against them. Have you seen video from Odessa town how warmly locals greeted Ukronazis while police smoked by the corner?

[Marguerite]

“The Ossetians and Abkhazians he intervened in Georgia for are not even Russian, he just gave them Russian passports and made them Russian citizens.”

Most of Russians and russophones in Easter Ukraine have also Russian passeports. Crimea and Odessa are 100% Russian. It was “offered” symbolically by Krustchev to Ukraine in 1954, but remained Russian thru and thru.
Same thing with the industrial center Donetsk, whic produces 25% of Ukraine income.

A total of 15 millions in Ukraine - one third of the population - are Russian speaking ortodox.