Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Is this high treason?
http://uatoday.tv/politics/ukrainian...-r-414058.html
No - unless the Ukrainian Church applies to the Ecumenical Patriarch to be released from the Moscow Patriarchate they are answerable to Moscow. So they agree or they get Excommunicated, which trickles all the way down to YOU being excommunicated with Constantinople. Messy. It'll get even messier when Constantinople convenes an Ecumenical Council over the issue.

All those excommunicated soldiers in a war zone, not spiritually healthy

Quote Originally Posted by Beskar View Post
"LOL", Putin goes on national television to say Crimea was intentional.
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31796226

It was the worst kept secret.
So at what point will he admit to the Donbass now?

Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
The US bullying has to stop so that the people of Russia and Venezuela can focus on internal issues again and finally get rid of Putin et al.
This entire antagonism policy just serves as a convenient distraction for these dictators and drives up the profits of the West's weapons manufacturers while everybody else suffers from it. But then again, who cares if the poor people suffer, right? The only thing that matters is that some people get the few extra billions to buy even more politicians.
An Entente with Putin was tried, remember how the G7 became the G8, even after Georgia we tried, then Ukraine happened.

On the one hand you're correct that sanctions don't work especially well, but on the other hand we don't have a lot of options given that cuddles apparently lead to wars in Central Europe.