I don’t doubt Russia has plenty of guilt in this case but I’ve never bought the fantasy of utter Ukrainian innocence. I’m 50 years old and know that situations like this simply don’t have many innocent people aside from the civilians caught in the middle.
In this case you have Russia, The Ukrainians, The EU, and likely the USA all attempting to manipulate the situation and I want no part of it.
It is kind of interesting that just a couple of weeks ago Obama falsely declared that Kosovo gained their independence through a free and fair referendum. He didn’t mention the part about the forced removal of the Serbs from Kosovo first.
Kosovo independence: Russia warns of separatist storm
Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 20, 2008 | Fred Weir
Posted on 04 May 2014 02:51:18 PM by Mount Athos
Russian President Vladimir Putin charges that Western support for the newly declared state, torn from Serbia this week, is “immoral and illegal” behavior that will provoke a global storm of separatism and explode the international order.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3151903/posts
...Kosovo was seized by NATO in a 1999 war after Serbia was accused of the ethnic cleansing of the tiny territory’s mainly Albanian population. Russia opposed the war, but was persuaded to help negotiate a truce following 78 days of NATO air bombardment of Serbia. Russian experts claim that Moscow’s envoy, Viktor Chernomyrdin, convinced Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic to surrender by conveying Western pledges that a NATO occupation of Kosovo would never lead to its separation from Serbia. Now, many Russians feel that Moscow’s influence was abused...