Ukraine Heats Up

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Originally Posted by Boreas

I'm virtually speechless! What we end up with here is US troops (plus UK and Polish contingents) on the ground in eastern Ukraine and Russian troops on the ground in western Ukraine. This will explode.

It also makes me, for the first time, seriously consider the possibility that the C.I.A. did Nemtsov in. Having a high profile assassination of an opponent of Putin at this time serves the interests of those looking for a pretext for ramping up the tensions between Russia and the West.

There's also the folly of training soldiers who simply don't want to fight. That didn't exactly work out in Iraq.

John

Did the CIA also murder the ~300 journalists who have murdered in Russia since 1993 and the various political adversaries who have been on the receiving end of a bullet or a dose of poison since Putin came on board?

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Europ...-Soviet-Russia

I think there's a much greater chance that the continuous bombardment of Russia by state-controlled media/propaganda riled up some violent nationalists (if Putin himself didn't help orchestrate it).