Posted on 03/16/2014 11:39:09 AM PDT by ScaniaBoy
With a voter turnout (79.09%) that exceeded every US Presidential election since 1900, the people of Crimea have spoken:
*CRIMEA JOINING RUSSIA BACKED BY 93% OF VOTERS: EXIT POLL Ukraine's leaders have called up 20,000 men for a newly-created National Guard as despite the so-called "truce" Russian APCs and Tanks are rolling. Pro-Russian supporters are burning books in Donetsk after storming anti-Russian buildings. The White House is already out rejecting the vote (before the final results are released).
Voter Turnout (by region):
As exit polls confirm overhwleming support for Crimea to join Russia...
Exit poll by Crimea-based Republican Institute for Political and Sociological Studies released by Kryminform news service.
93% of voters back joining Russia: exit poll
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
Source?
Ya got to love it...
How come Jimmy Carter wasn’t sent as an emissary to monitor the vote?
They belong to NATO, so that’s a whole other kettle of borscht.
They make more sense, given the demographics of the Crimea than the last US POTUS election.
Was it last week or two weeks ago that the Fat Boy of North Korea received 100% votes in the democratic election there?
As legitimate as the vote in Philadelphia, or any other urban area in this country.
PAWSEEBLE VOTES
#1 Da
#2 DA DA
The Baltic countries are NATO members. As long as that oganization exists it is unlikely, no make that very unlikely, that Russia would interfere with those countries. What is of interest now is what is going to happen in eastern Ukraine, the Donetsk area. Will they also demand referendum? Will Russia move troops into those areas as well?
The Crimea has more Russians in it than Ukranians and they mix like oil and water.
I really do not seeing them uniting willfully and the Ukraine would be smart to allow this to happen for a price.
Well, no.
Not really.
The EU has its hooks in Ukraine, and looked at medium term and long term the only likely choices were being subject to Russian bureaucrats or EU Bureaucrats.
Independent Ukraine needed a champion and with the election of Obama there ceased to be one available.
This is partially a lesser of two evils elaction since you don’t have to be very bright to forcast the impending EU collapse and how bloody it will inevitably become before its over.
And you know that how? Putin has been playing chess, testing the opponent and winning. NATO has proven itself to be a paper tiger.
The ballot paper is here:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26514797
Option 1: Rejoining the Russian Federation
Option 2: Returning Crimea to the 1992 constitution as an autonomous province of Ukraine.
Two choices (only) on the ballot - part of the Russian federation or an increased freedom within Ukraine (according to a now defunct constitution).
Interestingly enough it may well have been the second choice that would have been wished for in the Kreml. That would have put the ball back in Kiev’s lap, and the Crimean votes would still have counted in the upcoming elections, where it is far from a foregone conclusion that the Maidan parties would win.
If this is “democracy”, then northern California and Colorado should have no liberal resistance to forming their own states.
That large a margin all but guarantees Putin can’t say “no” to Crimean accession to Russia. Its a done deal.
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With an overwhelming vote like that, Putin is appearing as a savior, an image he can now use to move on to annexing the eastern Ukraine. The chessmaster Putin is taking the idiot Obama to school.
“The Crimea result is repudiation of Obama”
Putin 1 - Obama 0
With the Crimean seats now vacant in the Verkovna Rada, two million pro-Russian votes are gone.
This means Ukrainian nationalists should easily win the May 25 election.
Not what Moscow really wanted but at least it now has Crimea as a consolation prize.
Don't forget the EU. Remember it all started when Yanukovich refused to sign a deal with the EU. And the EU (aboslutely) (and probably the US) supported the Maidan demonstrators.
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