Yesterday unknown men took control of two airports on the peninsula. The men were masked, heavily armed and outfitted in camouflage clothing without country or rank paraphernalia. They refused to divulge their nationality or whom they work for.
I can't imagine that's anything other than some kind of Russian special forces and that they had a ready wartime scenario for this. They probably saw it coming for years. I guess Krim will turn into the largest "breakaway republic" of all.

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"We’ll regain our status as a nuclear power and that’ll change the conversation. Ukraine has all the technological means needed to create a nuclear arsenal – which would take us about three to six months,” Svoboda party MP Mikhail Golovko said.
Are these the new people in charge? This is totally bizarre, who are they going to threaten with nukes? Russia? What would be the purpose, deterrent? From what....?

I have no issue with Ukraine having nukes but this seems like getting it at the worst possible time for some rather irrational reasons. Plus with Chernobyl and all the bad vibes from the Cold war, do regular people in Ukraine really want nukes?

Quote Originally Posted by Paul G. View Post
They may say everything they want. Who cares about that?
I think Russia cares what the West thinks. Maybe not massively, but to a point. Plus for economical reasons.