I hate to keep posting this but if the Crimea wanted the Russians to come in why did this biker group replace the mayor two days before the attack. Because it is a KGB operation . New mayor asks for help. Rinse and repeat throughout region.
I found the article where the Night Wolves motorcycle gang helped replace the mayor days before the invasion. This happened on 2-25 in Sevastopol.
Form the article
“We will not submit to the regime in Kiev,” Dmitry Sinichkin, president of the local branch of motorcycle club the Night Wolves told the crowd in Sevastopol.
The Night Wolves are closely linked to Russia’s political elite. Putin has visited the group in the city several times, on one occasion in 2010 riding a three-wheeled Harley Davidson alongside the bikers.
After his speech, Sinichkin told RIA Novosti that fresh bloodshed in Ukraine’s ongoing political crisis was inevitable.
Rally-goers waved the Russian red, white and blue tricolor and yelled the football fan-style chant of “Ros-si-ya, Ros-si-ya, Ros-si-ya,” as they endorsed calls to create self-defense squads with police cooperation and withhold taxes from Kiev.
More on night wolves
Yeah, dirty pool. I thought this move was silliness at first. What would this be like, George Bush sending Hells Angels? Well, except Hells Angels really are independent minded. Their vices are typically American, but so are their virtues. They wouldn’t have any reason to be part of something like this. The Wolves’ vices are Russian.
In the middle of all this chaos what does the average Crimean really want? Do they regard Russia as boon or bane? We can’t hear it.
It's an easy thing for the Kremlin to do.
If one cannot see that part of things (I'm not saying you don't, but some here don't, believing every Kremlin lie -- there are new ones every day) then I don't know what to say...
other than the U.S. should be very careful in what it officially says and does.