“Putin’s done with talking at this point...His Ambassador knew ahead of time that they’d have nothing more to say to Kerry in this recent meeting.....Kerry finally got it.”
“If Putin gets Crimea back for Russia without bloodshed, he will be a great historical figure in our country and there’s nothing anyone can do about that,” wrote the journalist Ksenia Sobchak, who is usually opposed to Putin’s policy.
One has to understand that for Russian people Crimea’s role in two huge conflicts - in the Crimean War in 1860 and the World War Two - is the symbol of heroic struggle against invading foreign powers.
As a Crimea resident, who intends to vote Yes in the referendum, said yesterday: “Every square centimeter of Sevastopol is drenched in Russian blood. Many Russian soldiers died for this land. How can we let Ukraine ruin it?”
The oligarchs with the money..business and corporations do not want this to be a war zone and much pressure on the players to calm the waters in Ukraine.....I think Putin has Cremia ...period..and likely what Putin wanted to begin with.
Kruscheve said, after the Cuban missile crisis, that he would have never gone to war over Cuba....his objective was to get the missiles out of Turkey we had there..and that was the ultimate deal for him to back off. Might be Putin will settle for Crimea....but too soon to tell....he's seriously looking at Eastern and Western Ukraine and may go for the Gold.