Quite possibly. <I believe you are underestimating Putin. He will "keep the pot boiling" and try to grab Odessa and the rest of Ukraine's Black Sea coast, from Crimea west to his beachhead in Transnistria.> Wherever Transnistria is, the name seems quite Russian. Seems a reasonable plan. That's not much at all. Hysterics are thinking he's going to be sending a Russian Rommel through Libya and France, Germany, Belgium, Holland en route. They claim, as per Godwin's law, that he's just like Adolf. Which is even more absurd than CO2 hysteria.
It's a bit like the break-up of Yugoslavia into more cohesive units. Tito kept Yugoslavia tranquil but I have never seen such a sullen place as Pristina was in 1974 [I think it was Pristina]. I wondered what the heck that was about. 20 years later, I found out. Scotland and Quebec, East Timor and one place and another opt for independence at times. Ireland went long ago.
Ukraine was already boiling and Victoria Nuland was stoking the heat under the cauldron and manipulating the situation. It's obvious that Putin would oppose the evil witch. Unlike the NSA, his spying got the goods on Nuland. The NSA spooks get the goods on their girlfriends but couldn't figure out whether "Curveball" was giving them a load of rubbish about WMDs, which he was.
There are a few states in the USA which have lots of people thinking of secession. Hawaii should join NZ for example, so I'd have a northern summer hideout without needing a passport.
BTW, passports are an anachronism. There are computers these days so an identity scan at the port is all that's needed, with a link to the person's national data base.
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