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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule
Transcript of press conference with Putin. If he meant what he says, it ought to be easy to get things backed off the edge. Unfortunately, and I tend to think both the West and Russia are guilty in this aspect, once you encourage the extreme, you can't always rein it back in.
President of Russia
I always remember the saying "revolutions consume their own", and I kinda think that's what we are seeing in Ukraine now. |
Putin blamed everything on the Ukrainian government, while absolving Russia of all responsibility. And calls the current government illegitimate, while saying the planned elections shouldn't take place just yet.
Russia already made one naked land grab on Crimea. The same pattern, and denials, are being made on eastern Ukraine now.