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climasol
Nej men frågan är vad pappa Putin gör om hans folk i andra delar av Ukraina börjar ropa på hjälp.
Ska han lämna dem åt sitt öde eller ska han gå in och hjälpa? Ukraina har nu genomfört full mobilisering. Vågar pappa Putin eller kommer han lämna de stackars ryssarna åt sitt öde?
Den statspropagandistiska krigshetsen tyder onekligen på att det kommer att ske en invasion i östra Ukraina. Och om det blir så illa tror jag att det snabbt kan bli ännu mycket värre. Det är en process där Ryssland är på väg att fjärma sig från Västerlandet för överskådlig framtid - och det är inte "den ryska folksjälen" som Dostojevskij, Turgenjev och Tolstoj diktade om som Ryssland i så fall, vid ett fullbordat invasionskrig, återfinner, utan något mycket mer dysfunktionellt och ohållbart - ett slags hybrid av tsaristisk efterblivenhet, ryskortodox mörkermannacynism, bolsjevikisk fanatism och gangsteroligarkisk nyrikt vulgär ruttenhet. Det vore hög tid för en kollektiv rysk självrannsakan nu:
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Official Russian TV channel Rossiya 1 has given strong indications that further military action will follow after Moscow strengthened its armed forces' presence in Crimea and Russia's upper house of parliament unanimously voted to endorse Vladimir Putin's use of troops in Ukraine.
In a special edition of its flagship current-affairs programme Vesti Nedeli (News of the Week) on 2 March, controversial anchor Dmitry Kiselev was dismissive of Western threats of diplomatic isolation for Russia and of the new Ukrainian government's decision to mobilise its armed forces.
"I don't want to offend anyone, but the best that can said for the Ukrainian army is that there isn't one," Kiselev sneered.
Mr Kiselev is well known for his anti-Western and homophobic outbursts. In December, a Ukrainian journalist and activist awarded him a mock Oscar for his "lies and nonsense" about the protests in Kiev that eventually led to the ousting of President Viktor Yanukovych.
Denouncing the "bandit excesses" that had brought "democracy to its knees" in Ukraine (language that has now become familiar in Russian TV's coverage of the crisis), Mr Kiselev insisted that Russia had to defend its "interests" and the Russian-speaking population in Ukraine.
Framed against the background of massed Russian flags at a pro-Moscow demonstration in Crimea and the caption "We don't give up our own", Kiselev said that it was "impossible not to respond to this challenge".
"This is not even Syria, it is simply us," he declared.
Reports from the eastern Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Kharkiv reinforced the message. Crowds were shown chanting "Russia, Russia", waving Russian flags and sporting the ribbons of St George, a military symbol associated with Russia's annual Victory Day celebrations on 9 May.
Back in Moscow and St Petersburg, there were also large gatherings in support of Putin's stance on Ukraine.
"This is a personal matter for all of us. It is an historic moment, when our common energy is the key to victory," Mr Kiselev intoned.
Rossiya 1 has further sought to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the current Ukrainian government by suggesting that Mr Yanukovych's overthrow was engineered with the help of "mercenaries" from the USA, UK, Germany and Turkey.