11 days later is a long time between comment on threads...
Putin's won then? Russia wins. Job done?
Got the Crimea back (from the Ukraine) - tick.
Ensured security of its southern flank (nautically at least) - tick.
Endured nothing further than a vocal response from the "west" -tick.
Demonstrated that President Potus Bam Bam looks even more miniscule, less of a world leader than even I imagined (his level of response has been truly tiny - on the UK media at least) - tick.
Raised Russian esteem and morale - tick.
There were a few rumblings today in the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper about it all, but this isn't 1968, or 1979 or 1981.
Is it "job done"?
Reading back to the start of the thread 20th Feb I was prophesying full on Ukrainian civil war. This hasn't happened, since Russia's intervention things have been rather more peaceful. Well I was totally wrong to date.
Is it possible for anyone on Prune to give Russia and Putin any credit, at all?
Last edited by Hangarshuffle; 18th Mar 2014 at 21:12.