Quote Originally Posted by EfreytoR_S View Post
The goal of this whole campaign (i mean recent events in Odessa and South-East) - to drag Russian Federation into war. While world's mass-media blackens everything concerning Russia, it seems obvious that any detected russian force (even peacekeepers) on the territory of Ukraine would be called "Kremlin's butchers" and of course "warriors of light, defending the ideals of humanity" (NATO) would not hesitate to unleash its "holy wrath" on "agressive invaders". And again Europe will be on fire, while USA will trade, enrich, design new atrocities, orchestrating the conflict and dangling its lapdogs with new credits. That's the "Perfect war" by weakminded Western observers. The truth - if Russia intervenes it will be WW3.
Yes I think you are right. But we must be really careful to remember that it's only a part of the population even in East and South Ukraine who want Russia there.

Just because they are against the government in Kiev doesn't mean they want Russian tanks on their street.

As for the anti-Russian propaganda. Well, Putin is ALREADY being called a "butcher", "like Hitler" and other similar insults. So how much worse could it get? Russia was dropped from G7 and there are economic sanctions. In reality, most of the countries in Europe can not manage without Russian energy and have become dependent on exports to the Russian markets. Serious sanctions will not happen even if it did, I doubt it would be effective.
In terms of bad will against Russia, that already happened. As far as Western media is concerned, Russia is joining ranks with Iran and North Korea on the "very evil" list.....
It's propaganda at its very best...

I see two possibilities if Russia actually gets involved:

1) It was planned all along, and Russia had figured out that things would go this way and was just waiting for total chaos to strike

2) more likely: Various groups are trying to force Russia's hand to make it intervene. Russia did not really want to intervene but is left with litle faith.