Daily Beast Hog-Wash: Obama has four days to stop Putin.

[kpete]

Daily Bullshit:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/03/17/obama-has-5-days-to-stop-putin-in-crimea.html
Russia has agreed to a ceasefire in Crimea until March 21. Which gives the Obama administration four days to prevent an open war. Can anyone change Putin's calculation in time?

(that last sentence had me laughing out loud at 6:00 a.m. - woke up mr. pete)

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Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP

Pro-Russian Crimeans wave Russian flags as they celebrate in Simferopol's Lenin Square after exit polls showed about 93 percent of voters supported union with Russia

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- Crimeans have voted overwhelmingly to join former political master Russia as tensions soar in the east of the splintered ex-Soviet nation, the epicentre of the worst East-West crisis since the Cold War

- partial results with more than 50 percent of ballots counted show 95.5 percent of voters were in favour of leaving Ukraine in the most radical redrawing of the map of Europe since Kosovo's 2008 declaration of independence from Serbia

- international condemnation has began pouring in from world capitals long before the polls had closed but on the streets of Crimean cities thousands of people were celebrating the outcome with Russian flags and Soviet-era songs

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/16/ninety-three-percent-crimeans-overwhelmingly-vote-to-join-russia/

[quinnox]

1. Ugh, what a crap website. I just looked at it. Daily Bullshit is right.

The hysterical tone is nauseating. - "Right, we better do something, anything, because in four days we are all dooooooomed!!!"

[bemildred]

2. Butt covering, is what it is.

Nothing has convinced me more that this is another Neocon debacle than the reaction of the stooge press to the Russian's seizure of Crimea. Anything to spook the herd.