via NYTimes.
In this case the loss of another chunk of Ukraine.
The second act has begun and the US/EU is helpless to stop it. You're seeing an uprising by the people against the "newly installed" US/EU backed govt. The weak sauce of economic sanctions is not working and if fully implemented would probably plunge Europe into a serious recession if not depression.
Ukraine is gone.
Time to decide how many US Army Brigades we'll support in Europe and send them to Poland, Romania and Georgia.
MOSCOW — Under the attentive eye of Russian state television, several hundred pro-Russian demonstrators in the city of Donetsk, in eastern Ukraine, declared on Monday that they were forming an independent republic and urged President Vladimir V. Putin to send troops to the region as a peacekeeping force, even though there was no imminent threat to peace.What happens when you make a bluff and the other guy calls you on it?
The actions in Donetsk and two other main cities in eastern Ukraine, which included demands for a referendum on seceding from Ukraine and joining Russia, seemed an effort by the activists to mimic some of the events that preceded Russia’s invasion and annexation of Crimea. However, there were no immediate indications that the Kremlin was receptive to the pleas.
In this case the loss of another chunk of Ukraine.
The second act has begun and the US/EU is helpless to stop it. You're seeing an uprising by the people against the "newly installed" US/EU backed govt. The weak sauce of economic sanctions is not working and if fully implemented would probably plunge Europe into a serious recession if not depression.
Ukraine is gone.
Time to decide how many US Army Brigades we'll support in Europe and send them to Poland, Romania and Georgia.
