It is painful to watch this slow moving disaster. I wish it was resolved quickly, one way or another.
The “truce” was just an opportunity for both sides to regroup and reload. Reconciliation is still a long ways away.
The Ukraine is, by geography and cultural heritage, more a part of Europe than it is of Russia. But Russia lies to the east, like a great dog taking a bite out of the Ukraine’s hindquarters.
The Ukraine is the gateway from Russia to much of the southern and southeastern part of Europe, and major ports on the Black Sea. As such, much of the commerce that flows in and out of Russia must necessarily flow through the Ukraine to warm-water ports and via rail and pipeline to parts of what was once the Soviet hegemony of eastern Europe. Strategically, Russia MUST keep a presence in the Ukraine.
Right on the heels of Obama’s “threat” of consequences.
He is literally the biggest joke in the world.
Soros is pumping a lot of resources into this conflict. He really wants balkanization.
It is looking more and more like it will end up becoming a civil war in the Ukraine.
Phooey to the Soros-funded Uniates!!!!
Ukraine is ORTHODOX!!!! EU membership means mandatory “gay” parades and “gay” marriage, massive muslim immigration, and atheist rule (at least until the muslims take over).
And we don’t need those things here in America, either!!!!
They are shooting protesters in Venezuela too but the government there controls the media so the world can not see it on TV. In todays world if there is no video then there is no story, people are just as dead but there’s no story.
Gospodi pomiluj!
Kyrie Eleison.
Lord have mercy.
Are Ukrainians shooting on Ukrainians?