(April 14, 2014 at 6:31 pm)Chuck Wrote: I think Putin wants most of eastern Ukraine, not just crimea, and will get much of what he wants. Sooner or later, seditious acts by ethnic Russians and russian speakers will either wrestle de facto control of those regions from a weak and impotent Kiev and hand them to Moscow, or Kiev will be forced to crack down violently on the ethnic Russians and russians speakers, and Putin will have his excuse to invade and take these parts by force.
All Kiev and the West has to do is carefully tamp down those seditious acts.
The calmer they can do it, the more frustrated Putin will get.
The weaker he'll look too.
Slave to the Patriarchy no more
