Quote Originally Posted by UhOhXplode View Post
Could they do it without weapons and attacking government buildings? Well, Crimea did and that worked.
I would suggest that Crimea didn't "do" anything and a large percentage of people did not support this annexation. It's a complicated mess for a lot of people now.

Quote Originally Posted by UhOhXplode
Btw, did you catch that? Poroshenko is offering amnesty but only for the peaceful protesters. Lol! That's like offering amnesty to people who sat at home watching TV. So why would peaceful protesters need amnesty?
This is pretty standard for a politician to say. It's exactly what the Yanokovich government said to protesters in the Maidan (which occurred after a ban of all organized protests, which really incensed people and they had to repeal the ban).