What?
A liberal Kremlinologist makes this prediction?
No one is going to volunteer to die over Crimea or eastern Ukraine.
And Obama hasn’t shown repeatedly he isn’t up for that famous 3:00 AM phone call.
He sits back and manipulates the players
Ukranian conscripts have been unwilling to fight Kiev's war. But Russia has been willing to fight to keep Crimea and protect the rights of Russian ethnics. And the people of eastern Ukraine have been willing to fight the coup government in Kiev.
The message should be clear by now. Partition the mess that has coup leaders and their financers in Kiev provoking WW3. Do the partition among countries according to the ethnicity of the region.
We broke it (Ukraine) and it can't be put back together again.
JMHO