Erk wrote: Flagship Victory wrote:Merkel urges Putin to give Crimea back to Ukraine.
http://rt.com/news/257313-putin-merkel-ukraine-ceasefire/
In order to do that Putin would have to expel Crimea from the Russian Federation, which would be a massive insult to the Crimeans and would ruin a lot of lives there. I can't see that happening, I think it's an insult to Putin to say he "took" Crimea, the democratic processes such as the referendum were well recorded for all the world to see if they care to open their eyes. Merkel will not make many friends in Crimea with her urges to restore Ukrainian territorial integrity, which completely ignores the will of the people in the breakaway regions.
Kiev doesn't deserve to control Donbass or Crimea, Kiev proves their incompetence on a daily basis, they can't maintain the regions they currently have without resorting to fascist extreme measures! Merkel needs to grow up an get over it.
It is, in fact, a complete impossibility. Nuclear war is an option before that is, because such a move would destroy not only the credibility of the Putin government, but that of Russia itself. And, of course, that is why they keep demanding it.
Putin really is a supreme ironist, with the way he keeps referring to the US and it's European vassals as "partners." Because its obvious that, right now, Russia has little else but enemies there who hate it and wish for nothing more dearly than its destruction.
But, he's eternally hopeful. Clearly he's thinking that in time all things change, so, in the meantime, he stays diplomatic to a fault. We'll see.
God, I sure wish I knew what dirt the NSA has on frump Merkel. If they demanded she eat from a dog food bowl I'm convinced she'd do it. The gall that it took for her to go to Russia and say that today is really astonishing.