Russia is invading the Ukraine...........

[SLP]

The Crimea situation is similar to the US having a Naval Base in Cuba. The Russians have their best and only warm water naval base/port in Ukraine. And most all the people in the area with the Russian Troops are Russians.

You could bet that if the Cubans revolted and stormed Guantanamo Base Cuba we would send in US troops to defend our Naval Base in that foreign sovereign country.

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Added to that, wasn't Crimea actually originally always part of Russia? I think they just kind of deeded it or signed it over to the Ukraine when the Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union in some form of ledger keeping reasons or something like that. But basically my point is that Crimea was always part of Russia and many of their people probably think of themselves more as Russians than Ukrainians, so this is just a messed up complicated situation and not quite simply a black and white issue. Putin is a thug and I certainly wouldn't count on him to just stop there, but lets hope this is the extent of their aggression. If Putin moves off the peninsula into the rest of the Ukraine it would be much more alarming than it already is.

[GeoFisher]

Added to that, wasn't Crimea actually originally always part of Russia? I think they just kind of deeded it or signed it over to the Ukraine when the Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union in some form of ledger keeping reasons or something like that. But basically my point is that Crimea was always part of Russia and many of their people probably think of themselves more as Russians than Ukrainians, so this is just a messed up complicated situation and not quite simply a black and white issue. Putin is a thug and I certainly wouldn't count on him to just stop there, but lets hope this is the extent of their aggression. If Putin moves off the peninsula into the rest of the Ukraine it would be much more alarming than it already is.

Agree..........

[GeoFisher]

Here is a pretty good article about the Ukraine and Crimea, and what this Russian incursion means both short term and long term.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsate...n-into-crimea/