Russia prepares to attack Ukraine

[Dwood]

seriously Dwood.

It's all about the Black sea, russia isn't going to give it up no matter what happens in ukraine. They just need to let that pennisula go, i think most the people there are pro russian anyway

We shall see if that's all he wants.

[Bodzilla]

Putin would annex the world if you let him, but for sure he's not going to under any circumstances give up the black sea

[Warsaw]

[TVTyrant]

Anyone hear anything about actual violence yet?

[Higuy]

Not yet but apparently the new PM of Ukraine is essentially taking Russia's moves as a Decleration of War, so uhh, they got that going for them.

[Phopojijo]

And then you have the leader of Crimea, an autonomous republic, asking Russia for help (not to mention Crimea is quite pro-Russia and is mostly composed of ethnic Russians). Ukraine is claiming that government (Crimea) is unconstitutional but... is it? It *is* an autonomous republic.

[TeeKup]

Semi-Autonomous IIRC

[Warsaw]

Crimea is not independent; this would be the equivalent of Texas appealing to Mexico for armed assistance because it's got gang wars making hell.

[=sw=warlord]

Wasn't Texas looking to split from the US?

[Zeph]

Wasn't Texas looking to split from the US?

Yeah, if you consider Texas as something capable of putting up a Change.org petition instead of the actual government buildings that decide fate for residents.