The way I see it - Crimea is to Russia as Pearl Harbor is to the U.S. They are no more likely to give up Crimea then we would be to give up Pearl Harbor. So that part is a done deal in my mind.
What’s more I think there will be an additional chunk of Eastern Ukraine that will fall into Russia’s tender embraces. And if the west can live with these two basic premises and money can continue to flow east and gas can continue to flow west, then the world will be the better for it.
But angrier heads may prevail and it may, in fact, turn out far worse than that.
What’s more I think there will be an additional chunk of Eastern Ukraine that will fall into Russia’s tender embraces. And if the west can live with these two basic premises and money can continue to flow east and gas can continue to flow west, then the world will be the better for it.
Who asked Russia to give up Crimean bases? You have a link? It’s a fantasy to think Putler is going to stop with the Ukraine. I am sure he’d love to be the Russian leader who took down NATO.
What happens when Putin pulls this crap with a NATO/EU country like Estonia? The bill will eventually come due for this weakness. Putin is now much more likely to start more trouble knowing the EU (Germans) and Americans won’t engage him in a serious way over eastern europe.