and as for US acting in it's own national interests.
can anyone actually articulate what the USA gets from manipulating the Ukraine?
I mean, if we're playing a finger pointing self interest game...
Russia has some pretty well defined interests in the Ukraine and Crimea.
The US... nothing really.
The only thing i've even really seen suggested is natural gas pipelines that go to europe.
Not sure what benefit controlling the middle of a natural gas pipeline gets you. Let alone, having someone else own it, who can still pretty much do whatever they want.
Espiecally Obama who is pretty anti-US Natural gas, to the point of where to get europeons along to get sanctions his big concession will likely be being forced to export way more nat gas then he wants to europe in the first place.
