That 90%+ number by itself tells you the vote was bogus. The ballot had two choices, none of which was remaining in Ukraine. If you doubt the bogus vote look up the history of the Tatars and their percentage, 15%, of the population. Don’t forget to look up the percentage of ethnic Ukrainians who live in the Crimea. In a truly honest election my guess is it would have been 50/50. Of course in communist countries the elections usually are a sure thing. North Korea is an example. Dear Leader got 100% of the vote. I imagine every voter showed up for that election too.
Russia has been conducting an extensive propaganda effort leading up to the elctions strarting when the demonstrations got out of hand in their view. Part of that is aimed at convincing us we’re looking at another Iraq or Afghanistan. Ukraine’s could turn out to be another Afghanistan for the Russians.
I say we send the Ukrainians all the weapons left over from Ghadaffi and wish them luck. If our SEALS can interdict an oil tanker at the request of the Libyan government, I think we need a quid pro quo. Turn Ukraine into another Russian Afghanistan, Proxy wars work. We’ve BTDT. We don’t need to put boots on the ground to bleed the Russians.
NATO will fight Russia to the last Pole.
funny, I see nothing but happy people in the streetsof Crimea celebrating the vote.
and I see nothing but thugs in Kiev who’ve occupied and burned down the city after deposing the Democratically elected government.
are you sure you are not the one being manipulated by propaganda?
They have tons of weapons -most of which are in storage. They’ve been purging Russians from their military and I suspect, calling up reserves and activating units.
Refresh my memory. Who won in Afghanistan?