lol. there's been some kind of a seizure in the crimea. i'm not sure what's going on yet.

the western media is sadly trying to suggest that:

1) it's ethnic violence between russians and "tatars". probably not true.
2) the tatars are indigenous to the crimean area. absolutely false. in fact, russians are indigenous to the area. waves of mongols and turks invaded the region in the middle ages causing all kinds of carnage. that itself was a repeat of the hunnish invasions that destroyed the goth regions.
3) that the tatar groups would somehow prefer the white nationalist government in the ukraine, who would like to send them back to kazakhstan (where they came from).

these things are all obvious lies. i'll have to see how the story unfolds.

more likely to me seems to be that there's probably been some ethnic demonstrations against the racist government that was just installed. how that relates to the seizure, i can't say. how that relates to russia, i can't say.

but of course the fear is that something big is developing.