[elhombrelibre]

It's all a scam to protect Putin's military industrial complex. Putin's worth $75 billion; he didn't get that money by faithful government service. He's also helping Iran get a nuclear weapon. I don't see what that has to do with oppressed “Russian speakers.”

[No One Special]

I figure it provides him with an excuse to go international, sort of like protecting the rights of the proletariat was for the USSR.