that being said, this is a baby step towards a more assertive russia and that's a cause for alarm if you're concerned about global peace.

i mean, the americans have been pushing the russians around for decades, now. just poking them with stick after stick. again, it's in the pnac. and they've refused to react. it's astounding that the russians have kept up good faith for so long, with the expansion of nato and the construction of missile shields and the containment policies. we've managed to dodge large scale war in yugoslavia (a few times), afghanistan, iraq, libya, syria....

....except the russians have said libya was too far, and they've pushed back in syria. but there hasn't been any troop deployment. until now, in ukraine. which is very close to home.

i'm from canada. i know what "peacekeepers" are. but it's not yet an invasion. it is, however, a suspension of the considerable russian naivete that has prevented a world war up to now. that's cause for concern...

ideally, the americans back off. i couldn't imagine somebody thinking they actually will.

http://rt.com/news/russia-ukraine-approve-miltary-371/