... If there isn't neither sanctions nor the threat will make the least difference. ...........All that the Russian regime needs to do to destroy the Kyiv government is to do nothing and let the forces in play play themselves out....they seem to be willing to fight each other with little provocation.
“All that the Russian regime needs to do to destroy the Kyiv government is to do nothing and let the forces in play play themselves out....they seem to be willing to fight each other with little provocation.”
Those are all false statments. The Ukraine has been remarkably peaceful and respectful of human rights given the extreme provocations the Russians and their Yanukovych cronies have perpetrated upon the people of the Ukraine.
Furthermore, Putin is acting under his assumption that Russia’s window of opportunity to reconquer the former territories controlled by the Soviet Union and advance beyond them into Western Europe is rapidly closing as the U.S. midterm election approaches in November 2014. He has to consider the likeliehood the socialist-Communist sympathizing Democrats will soon be losing control of the U.S. Senate. If and when the Democrats lose control of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, Russia can no longer rely upon the ability of the Democrats to stop impeachment proceedings against Obama and other Democrats and loss of influence over the U.S. Government and the U.S. Department of Defense. Accordingly, Putin sees the military campaigning season of Spring and Summer 2014 as the last opportunity for some years to come to embark upon and complete some of the military campaigning and conquests in Europe and Asia before the U.S. elections upset their ambitions.
The same kind of timing issues came into play in the Second World War.
The Japanese moved up their plans to instigate what they called the Pacific War from April 1942 to December 1941 because the United States was scheduled to complete the training of a significant Philippines Army contingent in April 1942. To forestall the arrival of a new generation of U.S. navy warship construction and the appearance of a trained Filipino military force, the Japanese moved the invasion dates forward to December 1941.
Likewise, Hitler miscalculated when he invaded Poland in 1939. Accustomed to the appeasement of German aggressions by Great Britain and France, he expected them to take no more action than protest the Germna-Soviet invason and conquest of Poland. He had promised Germany’s Navy, the Kriegsmarine, he would not commit the Kriegsmarine to a naval war before sufficient naval construction had been completed in 1943-1944. Surprised by the Allied declarations of war in defense of Poland, Hitler mistimed his intended initiation of war with Great Britain and France, the guarantors of Poland’s territorial integrity and political independence.
Putin is now embarked on a serious miscalculation in his war plans.