Putin Flexing His Muscles...

[Altobelli]

... and Christ he's got some, also plenty of bottle with total disregard for any other Country with just as much military might as he has, no regard for any human rights issues, would you trust this man with buying a second hand car off him ? I should think not, he's one of the biggest dictators around, Russian folk disappearing after saying/doing the wrong thing in this very communist Country.

First the Crimea and now "Marching" into eastern Ukraine.

And what is stopping Putin rampaging into any Country he want's ? He's viewed what the West has done with intervention in other conflicts across the globe which were lets face it, it was feeble and NOT NEEDED, Yet What Putin is doing now is IMO bordering on WW3,, and the west is ***** footing about like it means nothing and everything will be O.K..

Many Governments of Military power are watching all this happen and seem to be turning a blind eye to Putin's "March" even though many Historians, Strategists etc etc are all saying its VER

[paderbornclaret]

Said it before...'a leopard doesn't change it's spots'

Whether the rights and wrongs of Crimea 'belonging' to mother Russia is correct or not, it doesn't change the fact, Russia (Putin) is behind the unrest in Eastern Ukraine. He knows 'The West' have come to rely on Russian oil and gas in the past decade...he can literally turn the tap off anytime. While we sit around and drink tea and talk about 'action'...he continues under the radar.

On a personal level, it's probably the best thing to happen...call it a 'wake up' call for NATO in Europe. These defence cuts and Army 2020 along with the withdrawal from Germany is as it's always been...a fkin joke...and Putin knows it.