I see the point you're making, and I actually think that Crimea ought to be part of Russia if they want to. I feel like Putin overplayed his hand; if they'd stuck with the original notion of having a vote in late April or a bit later (so that there'd be time for both sides to campaign properly) then I think he'd have got the result he wanted anyway. Sending in unmarked troops and then playing dumb about where they got the Russian uniforms was a move less befitting a statesman than a cartoon villain. Not that he cares what I think of him :)
>Sending in unmarked troops and then playing dumb about where they got the Russian uniforms was a move less befitting a statesman than a cartoon villain. Not that he cares what I think of him :)
exactly. He plays for internal market. And internal audience eats him. 25 years ago, back in USSR, we laughed watching a criminal asking Arnold in Red Heat "Kakie vashi dokazatelstva?" (what are your evidences?) Western mentality is so logical, evidences-shmevidences :) Such an easy target for a showman in Russia performing for Russian audience...
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