Another costly Foreign Policy debacle. That's all this is. Many will get rich and grow more powerful off this. They're the winners. Some Politicians, Corporations, and the Military Industrial Complex. But as usual, the big loser will be the average American Citizen. After it's all said & done, this misadventure is gonna cost em several $Billion in Tax Dollars. And with soaring gas & grocery prices here at home, it's money they just don't have. So there will be winners in this misadventure, but the American People won't be one of em.
Nor will the vast majority of Ukrainians be counted among the winners. Obama seems intent on aggravating turmoil in Ukraine until it reaches a level where NATO will move to deprive Russia of its geographical buffer against western military aggression.
An Indian POV on Ukraine:
"What happened on Wednesday (April 16) in eastern Ukraine should be a wake-up call for the US President Barack Obama. A column of Ukrainian paratroopers belonging to the elite 24th Airborne Brigade entered the city of Kramatorsk, meets with no resistance, and were instead greeted by unarmed civilians with flowers and food.
"The soldiers had been told that the city was swarming with Russian special forces and, finding none, they disarmed and either deserted their unit or stayed around and joined the local people protesting for autonomy for their region.
"The 'anti-terrorist operation' ordered by the interim government in Kiev, with American backing, stands discredited.
"Russia won a huge victory in the information war. But Moscow knows it is Pyrrhic victory. Evidently, Moscow prefers Ukraine to remain as one unified country, albeit as a federation allowing broad autonomy for the eastern region dominated by ethnic Russian communities.
"But if the crackdown ordered by the authorities in Kiev with US encouragement is pushed further, a civil war may well ensue, as President Vladimir Putin warned German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a phone call on Tuesday."
Ukraine: No winners, only losers - Indian Punchline
"The tragedy is that like a sleepwalker, Obama is following the footsteps of his immediate predecessors George W Bush and Bill Clinton in his Russia policy. The same old Russia hands, who assisted Bill Clinton, continue to mentor Obamas current policies toward the Kremlin."
