Ukraine in 48-hour ultimatum to east's pro-Russia activists

[The Magistrate]

23. You Offer Only Unsupported Assertion, Sir

There is nothing remotely resembling proof, of a sort that would be admitted to court or survive in a peer-reviewed journal of history or a thesis presentation, that the United States procured the overthrow of Yanukovyk.

The first overt military move across a border has been made by Russia. You cannot wriggle off this, no matter how you attempt to impersonate jello sliding down a wall in the intensity of your effort to avoid it. Russia has no right to be the economic exploiter of Ukraine, it has no injury justifying resort to invasion if it cannot maintain the position of primary exploiter of Ukraine politically. It is in the position of someone who, told he will not be lent or given a sum of money, and even called an asshole in the bargain, perhaps, resort by pulling a pistol and demanding the sum.

The taking of Crimea by Russia can be given the Nelson eye, but a further invasion into east Ukraine, cannot be. It will overthrow the consensus established after the Second World War, and open the possibility of numerous renewed conflicts in Europe. The responsibility for this will be pinned by history on V. Putin.