Ukraine Thread

[Gilrandir]

Syria seems super funny (if we ignore the actual human tragedies for a moment).
Lots of refugees noone wants,, lots of parties noone supports and now the only big power in the world that wants to get boots on the grounds to stop the islamists by supporting the similarly disliked dictator is so unorganized that it cannot even get its own soldiers to go.

After his "Russian spring" debacle, for Putin Syria seems to be the last chance to get his boots on the ground at least somewhere, to prove (to himself and to his supporters) that he is still a world player with a long reach and perhaps to exchange something in Donbas and Crimea for his Syrian (non)involvement.


Don't know if you heard this one:
http://www.rferl.org/content/ukraine.../27233898.html

According to Russian sources, the nickname Yatsenyuk used participating in Chechen war was ... ready? ... "Viking".