We can not fucking do any fucking thing militarily versus Russia vis-a-vis Ukraine.

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70. An interesting thought, all this violence has given Russia an excuse to

'protect Russian nationals'. I hadn't considered it, but until the fall of the government, the proposal of laws bound to anger a large part of the population by the new government, Russia had no excuse to increase its troop presence in Crimea.

Who knows, maybe this has all been in the interests of Russia? Seeing the IMF and World Bank Reps arrive almost as soon as the Government fell was bound to anger those who did not support being enslaved to the policies of Austerity. Brilliant, so you think Russia was behind all this knowing the EU would jump in to put the country under the thumb of the IMF, wait to see the opposition to Ukraine ending up like Greece and all the other failed economies forced to accept Austerity?

It's a bit of a stretch, but who knows? One thing is certain, so far Russia is definitely taking advantage of the situation and if the goal was to place Ukraine under the EU's austerity programs, and it was NOT Russia who instigated the overthrow of the government, whoever planned it doesn't seem to have considered the advantage it might provide to split the country politically.

I doubt it, but anything is possible. Playing chess on other countries' territory by powerful interests isn't new.