Quote Originally Posted by Hanna View Post
... Russia will "have" to send in "peacekeeping" troops to prevent civil war/deaths. People will then "demand" a referendum....
Something like that scenario already happened, in Georgia, in 2008. I sincerely believed the Russians drew the right conclusions from that war, which are, the Russian "peace-keeping troops" may only wander around Russia and "make peace" only in Russia, not in other countries. The Crimea events showed that nothing has really changed much since then. But for some reason, I still believe that the Georgian scenario will never happen in eastern Ukraine.