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CK_John Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 10:32 AM
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Will Russia move on the Ukraine before the 20th or after? Will they play the
spoiler, with a relaunch of the Soviet Union?
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 10:43 AM
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1. I Doubt It
Edited on Tue Jan-13-09 10:51 AM by atreides1
I don't believe that Russia wants all of the Ukraine, just the Crimea.

Afterall, according to 2001 Ukrainian Census, the population of Crimea was 2,033,700. The ethnic makeup was comprised the following self-reported groups: Russians: 52.32%; Ukrainians: 24.32%; Crimean Tatars: 18.1%; Belarusians: 1.44%; Tatars: 0.54%; Armenians: 0.43%; and Jews: 0.22%.


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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 08:05 PM
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2. Plus the Donbas.
Also mostly Russian speaking, industrial, and would widen the part of the territory heading to the Caucasus.

Of course, they'd like all of the Ukraine--but that wouldn't sufficiently penalize the Ukrainians that dissed Rossiya.
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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-13-09 08:09 PM
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3. Tsar Putin just wants a puppet government there like he had before
He doesn't want to absorb it just control it.
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