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To: Seizethecarp

Why would it need to be Spetnaz? The region voted over 90% for Yanukovich; do you think they would WANT to be part of the new EU-controlled Ukraine? How’d that work out for Spain, Greece, Italy, etc.?


8 posted on 04/06/2014 10:15:47 AM PDT by dangus
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To: dangus
The region voted over 90% for Yanukovich; do you think they would WANT to be part of the new EU-controlled Ukraine?

Yanuckovich was elected promising integration with the EU so your point doesn't necessarily follow.

Polls show most folks even in eastern Ukraine don't want to be part of Russian.

If I was in Ukraine I would be pro independent from Russia and from the EU.

15 posted on 04/06/2014 10:51:07 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: dangus; SunkenCiv

“Why would it need to be Spetnaz?”

Past behavior (by Putin before and after collapse of USSR in Lithuania, Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Crimea) is the best indicator of future behavior, IMO.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/gorbachev-meets-with-lithuanian-prime-minister

“Despite optimistic press releases concerning their talks, it quickly became apparent that Lithuania would not back down on its claim to independence. After imposing economic sanctions and threatening military action, the Soviet Union launched a full-scale military assault against Lithuania in January 1991.”

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303532704579476972067682740

Moscow has already consolidated its control over Armenia. Yerevan, like Tbilisi, had negotiated an association agreement with the European Union in July 2013. Yet Mr. Putin two months later bullied Yerevan to join his own custom union instead. And in both Georgia and Azerbaijan, Mr. Putin is investing in pro-Russian constituencies among opposition politicians, civil-society groups and ethnic minorities. Leaders in both Azerbaijan and Georgia have been left unimpressed by the Western reaction to the Crimea crisis. Both wonder when and where the risks of their pro-Western foreign policies outweigh the benefits.


53 posted on 04/06/2014 12:30:09 PM PDT by Seizethecarp (Defend aircraft from "runway kill zone" mini-drone helicopter swarm attacks: www.runwaykillzone.com)
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