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Originally Posted by MH
True , but for those geopolitical games to work there must be a infrastructure.
I say again give the Ukrainians some credit here.
They had been under corrupted government and russian influence/meddling or extortion for quite a while , nothing good came out of it.
Life is bad , economy is crap and there is no future so many of them went to the streets.
In particular when viewing some ex communist bloc countries enjoying mutch better prosperity while aligned with west - czech republic or poland.
It is not just about flag waving or geopolitical games although it also is....many jump on this wagon.
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Oh, goodness yes, I was referring more to Russias reaction to the uprising rather than the cause of the uprising itself.
There has been a wave of unrest in a few former pact states, I know that Slovenia had some a short while ago, Romania had protests in 2012, Albania in 2011. I think that the honeymoon period of post-communist democracies is coming to a close as we now have a generation of adults who don't remember life in the Pact, and who have either travelled abroad to western democracies or seen information from them on the internet and wondered why their systems aren't as geared towards anti-corruption as the wests (not that we don't have corruption, we just have it in different places and it's a bit more hidden).
Now, in regards to 0300Z tomorrow, if I were the Ukranian navy, and I wasn't already planning to defect, I'd be wiring everything that is explosive to detonate, because the Black Sea Marines are not to be messed with, and they will take the Ukrainian fleet. The question is just how much the Ukrainian forces will be able to destroy before its captured. I'd wager that the Russian forces will be wanting to keep destruction to a minimum because they'll be wanting to give the infrastructure and weaponry over to the newly independent Crimea.
We shall see...with this level of warning, there will be plenty of cameras trained on the area, that much is certain.