crimea river

look at this crap from christian science monitor (whose articles are surprisingly and consistently well-researched, well written, and reasonably objective, and when we say it's 'crap' we don't mean that their journalism is crap):

Some experts suggest that Mr. Putin, offended by talk in the West that likens him to Saddam Hussein and even Adolf Hitler, has decided to raise the political stakes. But they also suggest that the Kremlin may just want to demonstrate to Ukraine and the West that it commands the Crimean people's loyalty, and is unlikely to actually take the potentially world-shaking step of incorporating the little territory into Russia.

"Just because they ask to join Russia, doesn't mean Putin has to agree. He's keeping his options open," says Sergei Strokan, foreign affairs columnist for the Moscow daily Kommersant. "It's a signal. Putin isn't being inconsistent. What he said still applies, he just wants a bargaining chip in what's getting to be a very tough game."    (CSM)

This is all nonsense, Crimea is going back to Russia and you can take that to the bank. The EU and the USA should just get over it and normalize their relations with Russia; the Russians need to figure out if they dare try and pry more Ukraine territory away (not particularly advisable although i'm not an expert) and how they'd like to go about offering Russian citizenship and repatriation/migration help to Russians living in Eastern Ukraine and assisting them with real estate sale, etc.....

It's up to the EU to provide guidelines to the rest of Ukraine on how to join the EU and they should hold a plebiscite on whether they want to do that (they do).

At some stage Russia will have to normalize relations with Ukraine proper and accept that they are going to join the EU (because they are, it's self-evident).

Pretty simple. Washington is absolutely making fools of themselves showing how out of touch they are with history, relevance, normality and the rest of it, just embarrassing themselves. Best thing they can do is dress up like it's saint patrick's day and go walk in the snow barefoot, that's make more sense than their current bi-partisan idiot spasm.

God Bless

NBC has a new show coming out called 'crisis', it's about the crisis in american tv where all the actors are morons, the script-writers are meth-toking druggie idiots and the production values are scraped from the side of a toilet bowl