[Don Corleone]

Its Germany of the 1930’s all over again.

[GeronL]

here we go again

[epluribus_2]

So what if mexico did this with San Diego or even L.A.?
No different really.

[Cementjungle]

Now what’s Obama going to do... pull Pizza Hut out of Ukraine?

[dfwgator]

Now the rubber has hit the road.....Crimea was one thing, but Donetsk is another, not nearly the Russian majority there as in Crimea...what will Kiev do in response?

[goldstategop]

Actually there was a Donetsk–Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic just after the end of the First World War. It was short-lived.

Pro-Russian protesters seek to revive it in lieu of being incorporated into Russia.

Donetsk separatism has a history going back nearly a century.

[JimSEA]

Now we are getting into the range of < 40% ethnic Russians.

[william clark]

What next?

“We declare the sovereignty and independence of the corner of Nikolaivich Avenue and East Third Street!”

[McGruff]

How dare them try and over-through their own government. [/irony]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Pro-Russia activists declare east Ukraine independent

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/04/07/ukraine-gunmen-seized-building/7410151/