As much as I would jump on this and encourage people to stop Putin (I despise Socialism and Communism and Marxism and every variation thereof and don't trust Putin's motives one inch), I also know that 12,000 Muslims marched to support the other side and were part of the violence at least, if not the reason for it.
Putin is fighting the same fight we are against Islamic violence - violence happening around the world in every country in the world (except, apparently, Greenland).
Search
Ukraine+Muslim
and find evidence of your own by your own criteria and ethics.
Do I know for sure? No clue. But I it makes me wonder if that's what is at the root of this?

A compelling piece. I do not know the answer, but we should do all we can to reduce the European nations apprehension because of dependence upon Russian energy. We should have long ago, increased our production and offered it to the world. It has been said that anything we do now would only be long term, but just starting initiatives can drive the price of energy down and threaten the Russian revenue stream. The neighboring nations need to exert more pressure and develop more independence. What can we do besides diplomacy, economic pressure with the Russians and assistance to the Ukrainians that will not escalate and involve us in another war?

I seen a similar video just the other day with just one Ukrainian lady like this. Putin loves putting on a show as Obama. Could be they are both aligned with one another and the likes of MSNBC,CNN and other laim stream media groups are taking another shot at us from behind the curtain. Possible.

I sympathize with any country being invaded by another. The ethnic issues many European countries deal with make it entirely understandable why one side wants Russian intervention while the other side doesn't. In the end, one side wins...the other loses, badly.
With our current administration, involving the U.
S. would probably be a really bad idea. Like many other fights of this type, we have moved in, cleaned things up a bit, then move out. This action is usually followed by another, far worse, invasion of the country which leaves a great many more dead.
Once you take another country under your wing, you'd best be prepared to stay with it for a very long time and the U.S. simply can't afford that expense at this point. All one has to do is look at a country, like the Philippines. We moved in during WWII and remained there what...40, 50 years? Look at where that country is, just a few years after the U.S. pulled out.

My first response was made before I read other posts that have been made here. This is in response to some of those posts. I don't give a damn that the students speak several languages. However, it would bother me some if it turns out that the YouTube video is not what it says it is. Still, I wonder, should we kill the messenger?

Re. YouTube "Brave Ukrainian College Students..."
This video moves me! I will do anything I can to support these O'So Brave! Kids. My problem is that I am short on ideas about how to help them. I welcome suggestions.

I too read the Kissinger op-ed, and it made me wonder more than ever what we are doing in this Ukraine mess. Kissinger seems to support Obama, yet says wait and see. Considering Kissinger, along with Soros, have been frequent visitors listed on the Obama Oval Office visitor list, one wonders what they are cooking up. When I sent the op-ed to my brother, a retired USAF Major with high security clearance, he said he trusted Kissinger about as much as he does Soros!
Think back to the 1970s, or farther to the end of WWII. Kissinger was outed by Polish Army Intelligence officer Colonel General Michael Goleniewski, as a member of ODRA. This was a spy ring which was part of the Soviet intelligence network headquartered in West Germany. This was before Kissinger returned to the US and Harvard.
Later, as Sec. of State, Kissinger made some questionable appointments, with some being admitted communists.
By about 1976, Kissinger let it be know he believed, that by controlling food, once can control people, and by controlling energy, especially oil, one can control nations and their financial systems. By placing food and oil under international control along with the world's monetary system, a loosely knit world government could become reality by 1980. ("The Rockefeller Files", Gary Allen).
So, is this the outcome that Objectivist want to see happen? Is this what the people in the Ukraine understand, while we listen to smooth words. Remember, Rand understood there people and how the operate. Is it Putin we really should watch, or had we better clean up our own government, as it is from within that the communists will take us down.
Personally, I am not at all sure Obama, Putin and Kissinger are not after the same end goal, and it will not be what we will like.

Yo, y'all: esp. khalling. You assume too much by my (maybe) less than complete communication of my desire to help the Ukrainians. You speak too much without much to speak of. Have a drink or smoke or something, "Dude." I do want to help them, and I don't care much whether you like it or not.

You are probably a really nice person. So don't take this too seriously, i.e., my criticism.

Live Long & Profit

We can no longer be the policeman for the world. We accomplish nothing with our attempts at intervention. The last war that we won was World War 2. Everything that has been done since has been a total failure and has only drained our economy and caused the needless and inconsequential deaths of our young men.
Our Federal government is completely incompetent. From what I see of his actions, Obama is pro-Islam and anti-Christian. He is on the wrong side. He has not deterred but strengthened and encouraged radical Islam.

Another Kony 2012ish video?

I'm sure we all have our "If I was king . . ." solutions in mind, but the imperial president we have in office, and his sycophantic enablers have little will to do what is necessary. The U.S. could start shipping liquefied natural gas to Western Europe, which would do two things: give the EU some sense of security, by cutting the power Russia has over them as their major energy supplier; and undermine the shaky Russian economy by direct market competition.

Getting the Keystone pipeline going would send another signal, as would removing the restriction on selling U.S. crude overseas. We could also encourage our Arab allies to step up oil and natural gas shipments to keep the energy market stable.

Giving the green light for U.S. energy producers to help the Israelis get their natural gas undersea finds into the market quickly would also create another source for Southern Europe. Russia's wealth comes from their raw materials sales, so anything we can do to shrink their share of the world market can start to throw sand in the gears of what could become a real threat to all of Europe.

At this point it may be a case of having to enable Ukraine to make a comeback, since we've allowed this situation to develop for so long.

Ukraine is a diverse country. Many Russians in Ukraine have welcomed the Russian troops. We have to move carefully.