1. The Obama administration's "strategic" gambit to subcontract the State Department's "Khaganate of Nulands" to extricate Ukraine from the Russian sphere of influence -- and ultimately annex it to NATO -- by instrumentalizing a coalition of willing neo-nazis and fascists with a central bank veneer (prime minister "Yats"), is in utter shambles.
2. Moscow's counterpunch was to prevent in Crimea -- as intercepted by Russian intelligence -- a planned replay of the putsch in Kiev. The referendum in Crimea -- 85% of turnout, roughly 93% voting for re-joining Russia, according to exit polls -- is a done deal, as much as the oh-so-democratic European Union (EU) keeps threatening to punish people in Crimea for exercising their basic democratic rights. (By the way, when the US got Kosovo to secede from Serbia, Serbians were offered no referendum).
3. The main rationale for the whole US "strategic" advance -- to have their proxies, the regime changers in Kiev, cancel the agreement for the Russian naval base in Sevastopol -- is up in smoke. Moscow remains present in the Black Sea, and with full access to the Eastern Mediterranean.
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