Russia Supporters Storm Ukraine Government Buildings

[amandabeech]

18. What I wish is that everyone waits until the returns from the May election are in.

Yatsenyuk (sp) will be out, and someone new will be in. Yanukovich's party, the Party of Regions, is running a candidate from Kharkiv, who would probably be more friendly toward Russia. To my mind, anything other than election rallies are premature.

What I really don't want to see is Russia invading, then holding elections under the barrels of guns.

Nonetheless, it is hard to tell what Putin will do. As Angela Merkel said, he's in his own reality. I think that his reality is rooted somewhere in the 18th century where might makes right. Last year he managed to prevent Armenia from signing a trade deal with the EU. This year, Moldova and Georgia are due to sign a similar deal, but look what is happening. There is a lot of activity in the break-away Transdneister region of Moldova, and, according to one piece I've read, Putin has put some very new, very destructive weapons in South Ossetia, the part of Georgia occupied by Russia. This is all from a man who has said that the greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century was the breakup of the Soviet Union.

I think that we are living in interesting times.