It's the same sort of regime change has been the goal in Egypt, Libya, and Syria. Did they really think Putin would stand for it any longer? Look what happened to Syria when nobody put restraints on the direction of the protests.
Here’s a link to the conversation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxaa-67yGM&feature=player_embedded
Exactly correct. You have to assume the US government is supporting some very nefarious groups as it has in Egypt (Muslim Brotherhood), Syria (Al Qeada) and Libya (Islamists Extremists).
>>It was posted on another thread that Russia expelled the US ambassador.
It was probably McFaul if they have still kept him in Moscow.
A first untrained diplomat working as an Ambassador to Russia ever, famous for spending more time with local LGBT and Occupy Moscow crowd than he did with Russian official.
He also once went to what Russians has for Pentagon and demanded to have a meeting with generals. It was very unusual but some people gathered to listen him.
McFaul said he learnt from US military that you guys are always cheating on arms treaties, he has researched a problem and came to a conclusion that you have to paint symbols on top of your mobile missile launchers to distinguish from 18-wheelers and easily count it from space to sort things out.
I guess all the guys were about to laugh their butts out but somehow kept calm and one of them told McFaul that they have no idea if they can decide on their own without Foreign Ministry and lawmakers but since it is the first time in history they have been visited by a foreign Ambassador this way and none the less bearing such an unorthodox proposal they simply can’t let him go away with nothing.
Would you please have a cup of tea here and give as a few minutes to discuss?
In a half hour they went back and said it is a tough decision, we are risking so much but we tend to agree to your proposal. On the other hand there is a guy with us who studied a diplomacy for two semesters many years ago before being a dropout from university and coming to military. He insists that diplomacy is a two-way road and it’s a must for us to ask something in return. McFaul agreed and they said that missile guys agreed to mark their trucks but navy guys wants McFaul to make USN paint a rainbow pattern on top of every Ohio-class and disable dive function so they can count and track it from space too. None was able to hold laugh at the time.