[tcrlaf]

“The only ones who are not viewing Putin as the aggressor over there are the Russian trolls”

IMHO, as I have said many times, Obama and the minions, in an attempt to make Russia “pay” for stopping the Syria attack, have unintentionally created conditions that Putin, Machiavellian that he is, couldn’t possibly pass up.

Events in Ukraine didn’t happen in a vacuum, and Russian Intelligence isn’t stupid. They saw what was coming and made contingencies for it.

[Corporate Democrat]

You’re right , it didn’t happen in a vacuum. Yanukovych made a key election promise to associate Ukraine with the EU. As a Russian, he decided to play the moderate to get elected.

Once he did get elected, he waffled for a few years and then broke that promise in return for 15 billion from Putin. When he reneged, massive outrage ensued quickly leading to protests.

Did Obama force Yanukovych to ditch the EU Association deal?

[Corporate Democrat]

Like I said, go look at what they're saying for yourself. He lied, reneged and then tried to wait out the protests for months. When he tried banning protests and restricting free speech, his own Party began to rebel and so he fled.

A huge number of Russian-speaking Ukrainians then turned on him once they saw just how enormous the guy's house was.