When I started getting REALLY concerned was when I realized they are moving past Crimea in to Ukraine. It’s like Crimea is Austria and Ukraine is Poland in WWII.
“When I started getting REALLY concerned was when I realized they are moving past Crimea in to Ukraine.”
The whole of Ukraine was likely never part of the equation, but the Donetsk basin area always was. It is majority Russian, and supported the government that got overthrown.
The corruption, collapsing economy, and lawlessness of the last several years has hit the area hard, and they aren’t that far from a Russia that they see doing far better economically than they are.
Part of the issue here is that Europe does not have a strong leader with a large, well-funded, efficient military standing by to keep the new-old soviets out of Europe as she did in WWII. The other part of this problem is that all of Europe is looking westward to us to keep the new-old soviets out of Europe and we don’t have that leader, either. This will not end well.
Yep, and the West does not have the will to do anything.