World War III Anyone?

Just read Chancellor Merkel's speech, giving her reasoning, for not providing Ukraine with heavy defensive weapons. While she makes the valid point, Vlad's not going to back down if we up the ante; she misses the larger more salient point. Aggression unchecked, leads to more aggression. A lesson taught so well by her own ancestors, I'm flummoxed at the idea she can't see it.

As I read Ms. Merkels' statement, I couldn't help but be transported back to 1938.
The phrase "peace in our time" as proclaimed by Neville Chamberlain, upon his return from meeeting with Hitler, during which he gave Herr Hitler the West's blessing to Germany's march into the Sudetenland, rings with an ominous echo today.

Putin, has become bolder in his actions in light of the economic sanctions put into play, not less so, and certainly if we send in weapons, Russia will respond. Disproportianately.
In Czar Vlad's eyes, Ukraine is Russia, has been forever, and will continue as the western frontier of the largest nation on earth. Think "lebensraum" or in English "living room", the German term used by the Nazi's to describe their push east into Poland, Czechoslovakia....
Putin's using the same rationale, Ukraine is to Russia, what Eastern Europe was to the Nazi's.

Witness the demands coming from Moscow, while Merkel insists the original peace plan be the starting point for future discussions. Those demands for territory grow with every word passed in negotiation. So far as Putin is concerned, that first disingenuous offer made, which was never to be honored, was only subterfuge allowing Russia to inject more and better armed forces to the region, while consolidating facts on the ground.

Peace negotiations with Vlad are doomed to fail; sending only defensive weaponry to the Ukrainians, will only forestall the inevitable crushing of Ukraine, with inherent catastrophic effects to their society.
No, the only way to roll Vlad back, is to commit the full force of NATO to the cause, and do it soon.
Should Vlad find success in this folly, does anyone believe it stops there?
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, these countries know all to well it stops when the Russians hit the Baltic.

Ukraine III

I knew you wouldn't let us down Vlad; that phony pretext of Russian's being threatened by Ukrainian mobs is straight out of Hitler 101. Or is it Stalin 101, maybe it's just despot 101. No real difference evil is evil anyway you slice it. The country Vlad, the way you slice the country.

Donetsk, Kharkiv... where exactly will you draw the new boundary? So exciting, sitting in the Kremlin redrawing maps at your whim. What it must be like to play king... with so many inconsequential serfs to grind to dust.

So what's your next genius move? Cut off gas to the western portion of Ukraine? Can't do that, unless you want to cut off your cash cow in the rest of Europe; you know that growing list of nations lining up to sanction you and your capos. Yes the same countries who have been supporting your regime through the trade of stolen Yukos natural gas; those same countries are looking like they may finally nut up and face you down.

Today the list of economic and political sanctions at the disposal of your trading partners far surpass those at the hands of 1930's Europe, and perhaps these same countries will finally exhibit a proactive will to prevent further episodes of "Vladimir's Folly". Point is Vlad, you're treading on thin ice, your stock market is in freefall, the ruble rumbling down the slope of equity to it's lowest point in years. All the while, you fiddle while Kiev burns.

Rockin' the Ukraine

Oop's didn't see this coming... right? No everyone saw this coming. Anyone paying attention that is.
Poopin's on the move. Ukraine 2014 is beginning to resemble Germany 1945 about now, at least with regard to one country becoming two, split on an East West axis. Only difference being, the devastation of war that preceded Germany's partition, is still on the horizon. Closing as fast as a cruise missile.

Anybody foolish enough to believe, for even the briefest of moments, that Vlad would allow one of Russia's last vassel states to abandon his pirate ship, has clearly walked the plank of sanity.
Mr. Poopin's about to unleash his military in a way the Chechen's and the Georgian's experienced, but with far more brutality, and far greater manpower and resources.

Poopin has used with glee, and the precision of a wrecking ball, every tool in the box including but not limited to: threats, coersion, bribery, assassination; to gather new and return lost Soviet/Czarist influence and territory to the Russian fold. (Read: his personal fiefdom.) This direct affront to his authority will be suppressed, and done so with extreme prejudice.

Ukraine is the crown jewel of the empire after Mother Russia, has been since the 17th century.
If Vlad loses Ukraine on his watch, what will his ultra nationalist facsist friends think of him, or
his ability to withstand a putsch?

No, there's a great deal more at stake here than just Ukraine walking. Vlad's very grip on power, like the grip on his penis, is tight. The question is how long can he take the pressure?
Russian citizen patriot you're now in a free fire zone, and Vlad's a dead man walking target.
Do your duty, before millions suffer for the ego of a troll.