The thing I love about the Crimea situation is that their own manipulation backfired at them!
It's a cynical way to look at things, but it's not very personal to me. I don't know anybody in Crimea or Eastern Ukraine. It just pisses me off that they dared to get involved in the internal business of a sovereign European nation.
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Ukrainian leader backed from the EUs poor offer, and turned to Russia.
They decided to take Yanukovich down, using his own shortages as a leader, the extreme and easily manipulated parts of the Ukrainian population and every dirty trick in the propaganda handbook....

Serves them b.....y well right, if all they will end up with is the poor under-developed rural Western Ukraine which is exactly the type of country that the EU does NOT want, and the USA doesn't give a damn about since it doesn't border Russia or the Black Sea.

While the bits that they DO want (Crimea and Eastern Ukraine) declare independence or go to Russia.
All this listening to Russian TV has inspired me to start studying Russian again.
I want to go hiking on Crimea. Same as Lampada did. Saw some pictures of it, it's absolutely gorgeous.