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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (774810)3/13/2014 10:48:25 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1572025
 
The problem is that's the kind of can of worms Russia would love opening.

Maybe. But the problem with trying to use brutality to put down populations is that they are even more resentful than they were before. Which is why the Tatars are a wildcard in the Crimea.

The Tatars aka Tartars [yes wingers they are known by both names] seem fairly passive. First there are not a lot of them left in Crimea....roughly 12% of the total population and they have spent most of the last couple centuries trying to survive as a subservient population. There is little of the militancy found with the Chechens. I expect the Russians will have more trouble with the Ukrainians in Crimea.

Here is a nightmare scenario for Putin. The Tatars start stirring up trouble. Putin starts to crack down. But then the Chechens start up. Along with some others. At some point, and I don't think it would take much, Putin gets way over-extended.

Have you seen the photos of what Putin has done to Grosny......the capital of Chechnya? Its decimated. The city had a 2000 population that was less than 2/3 of its 1989 population. I think the back of the Chechen militancy has been broken.

Putin is not an idiot. As a former KGB, I think the asshat is very calculating and does what ever is necessary to make something work. Did you follow what he did to prepare Sochi for the winter games? Because Sochi has a subtropical climate not too unlike Vancouver, he had tons of snow stored in huge bins to be used if there was not enough snow during the games. That's on top of the massive snow making equipment he had assembled on the courses in the mts.

I believe Putin will swallow Crimea and that will be the end of it........other than the slow but steady emigration of Ukrainian nationals from the peninsula.
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