[Cincinatus' Wife]

Hmmmmmmmmm....

[Olog-hai]

Funny he is this predictable, yet nobody in the White House or State Department can anticipate his next move.

[Rashputin]

"The Kremlin’s main goal is to rush through a referendum on independence on May 11 and undermine Ukrainian presidential elections scheduled two weeks later."

No matter how anxious the Kremlin may be, the Kiev gang are far more anxious than they are over how to delay the scheduled elections or to deny some regions the right to vote in that election.

Were they honestly interested in democracy there was no reason for the people now in power not to defuse the situation in Kiev over the past few months and just wait for the already scheduled elections rather than egging on the mob.

Having a mob surround the Parliament then telling Parliament to appoint you as the "interim government", though, gets around the pesky problem of there being eighty or more parties with candidates in the coming election, very few if any of which would have supported the people now in power.

Just my (and no doubt unpopular) humble opinion.

[Fear The People]

Remarkable how brilliantly that policy wonk Hillary and supergenius Obama reset Russia.

Pure Genius.

[trebb]

It seems that he is predictable to those with minds - Palin and Romney for instance - but not to those on the Left.

Putin is running circles around all the leftists and will soon have engineered plausible reason to take heavy action in the Ukraine while the "stunned" world looks on and gnashes its teeth.