....” Russia is ready to develop ties with Ukraine but not with those who seized power through bloodshed”...
If Chimea doesn’t go to Russia, Putin will work with a Gov. that represents ALL the people, currently it does not as it has no representation of the eastern Russian speaking areas.
Putin does not want Ukraine to go Nato....because if it does it protects Ukraine from any Russian authority there as do all those nations now part of Nato. He’s not going to have Nato on his doorstep, which for him is the West.
Therefore Putin will deal, as before, for his bases and the guarantees the oil will flow.
I agree, but he will keep going north to all of the states on his boarder using the same method he did here. Send in the gangs, change the mayors and city councils and then raise the Russian flag. Why would he stop in the Crimea.
They all need his protection and he needs control of all the pipelines. Who will stop him? Oh wait John Kerry LOL