Pro-Russians storm Ukrainian navy base in Crimea

CNN ^ | Mar 19, 2014 | Laura Smith-Spark, Nick Paton Walsh and Alla Eshchenko

[Ingtar]

...NATO has broken Russia's natural allies.

... NATO Russia has broken Russia's natural allies former conquered territory's trust.

Thought I might correct that for you a bit.

[Natufian]

Sounds like a great deal to me.....for the West.

NATO gets all of eastern Europe and Russia can rage about ‘losing’ all those entire countries that were never theirs in the first place. Russia gets to keep something that they already had and NATO can weep over a not getting their hands on a few square kilometres.

[listenhillary]

We’ve taken our eye off the ball in the Middle East. Watch closely there. That will be more likely the cause of me walking to work.

[Marguerite]

USNATO can still keep the little leaders gnomes like Camerons, Hollandes ank Tusks under their thumb, but the peoples of Europe hate their guts and want only one thing; that the warmongering US, CIA and their Blackwater thugs go back to America and never return. It happened before to hear it, isn't so? When Charles de Gaulle ordered the evacuation of all US military bases from France, people chanted "Yankees, go home!".

If you think that Europeans forgot your barbaric bombings in Yugoslavia, you're deadly wrong. THE LAST THING Europe wants is a shodown with Russia. And for your information, Europe continent ends at Ural Mountains, Moscow, St.Petersburg, Nijni Novgorod and Archangels are European cities! They won't build Europe against Russia, but WITH Russia. Ukraine IS in Europe, 7,000 miles away from US. I really don't see how it's America's business. Besides, Ukraine isn't even a member of NATO, they must get the hell out of there.

[Natufian]

“If you think that Europeans forgot your barbaric bombings in Yugoslavia, you’re deadly wrong.”

As I suspected, there’s no way you’re an American. So, where you from and why do you hate the US so much?

[pleasenotcalifornia]

You have me at a disadvantage since I have only been around since 1952 and cognizant of NATO since 1964. However, seems to me that the strategy since 1991 was to prevent Russia from moving back into those nations that I listed in my previous post. That's not to say that perhaps after the fall of the Soviet Union too much territory was given up by Russia by their measure, especially when you consider that the population inhabiting those countries in part had become or had been strongly ethnically Russian for a long time. Surely, Putin sees that in light of a very weak West, it is a good time to push back or counter. He has Russia's interests to look after.

[RitchieAprile]

I’ve read about what happens to POWs taken for bus or train rides by the Russians. Wonder when the mass graves will be found?