According to the KyivPost, despite the outcome of a March 16 referendum where Crimean voters, at gunpoint, voted overwhelmingly to join the Russian Federation, Ukrainian leaders refused to cede any part of the Crimean peninsula, calling on their troop to prepare for war. "Crimea was, is, and will be our territory," said Defense Minister Ihor Tenyukh. Former heavyweight boxing champion, and now leading Ukrainian politician and presidential prospect, Vitali Klitschko, announced that Ukrainian troops would remain at their bases, even after March 21, the end of a peace treaty signed by the interior ministries of Ukraine and Russia.
If war comes, and drags on without a quick resolution, or destabilizes central Europe, it will only help the neocon element of the political right which strongly supports the idea of another Bush presidency, and harm the prospects of the libertarians and neo-isolationists.
John Batchelor's latest "war" podcast
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