re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

“…The original plan called for a presentation at the Congress of Viktor Yanukovich of a proclamation of a new Southeast republic and its separation from Ukraine….”

>Secession!!!

Secession may well have been the original plan, but that changed rather abruptly when, according to the article, President Putin put the kibosh on that idea.

Putin is many things; autocratic, ruthless, etc., but he is not rash or impetuous, and above all, he is not a fool. I think he will wait to see how things shake out in the immediate post-Yanukovych environment and proceed accordingly, most likely politically as opposed to militarily.