Oh boy...negotiations Russian style...theyre good really good. The objective was and still is CRIMEA...and thats a done deal. The SHOW OF FORCE around the borders is simply to have something to negotiate as a save face for the other side...in a way retreating and allowing the other side to claim victory for not letting the whole thing escalate further. They never intended to go anywhere else...its what I wrote before. The Russians were not going to let a pro EU Ukraine to engulf CRIMEA with the strong Russian national identity (and more importantly the key strategic naval base) there.
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 20:15:38 +0000