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BELBEK AIR BASE, Crimea (AP) Pro-Russian forces stormed a Ukrainian air force base in Crimea, firing shots and smashing through concrete walls with armored personnel carriers, according to an Associated Press journalist. At least one person was wounded, the base commander said.
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AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)around here are celebrating these inconsequential sanctions, meanwhile Putin keeps swallowing more and more of the Ukraine and putting more and more troops on the borders of the country. What fucking world do people live in that think sanctions will stop a madman like Putin? I really want to live in their world, because it doesn't resemble this world at all.
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)You may not ultimately like it, but you might get what you wish for.
AnalystInParadise
(1,832 posts)read my posts, the last thing I want is a fucking war. I have had enough for ten lifetimes. But you really think sanctions and election observers are going to deter a monster like Putin?
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)Take over all of the former soviet states? Who cares? Not our problem.
Unless he's going to be running death camps, or ventures into western non soviet territory, Putin is hardly a monster and there's no reason to get involved militarily .
malaise
(269,054 posts)the illegal war and occupation?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Still doesn't justify Putin's imperialist agenda.
CFLDem
(2,083 posts)They'd be killing each other anyways.