Jeff, with great respect, we have no way to ascertain the situation on the ground with respect to the sentiments of the Ukraine's population.
They could be Poles awaiting the Wehrmacht, but they equally well could be Austrians awaiting the great day of unification.
There is no reliable way to know, and since there isn't, exposing our guys to a situation where they are helping a minority, perhaps a tiny minority, who are well-connected to CNNCBSNBCABC and the IMF-Soros-EU conglomerate just doesn't seem to me like good policymaking.
No problem, Jim. But in Kiev and inthe western and northern provinces of the country, we do know.
They want no part of Russia and have their own nation, their own constitution...and their own memories of Stalins stavation campaigns aginats the grandparents. They have been recommedned several times for joining NATO, and we should have made that happen before now, as we did for Poland and others. THeir troops have fought with our own in the Mid East.
Crimea...and the other two provinces that are predominantly ehtnic Russian...what ou say is true. But not the rest of the country.