The world is trembling at the war going on in Eastern Ukraine. Families who are Russian-speaking, though consider themselves Ukrainian, are under fire from both the regular Ukrainian army/police, and from the Russian separatists who inhabit many of the towns in the area. It is a de facto civil war.
Or is it? Could it be that Russia herself is behind these "separatists" and is supplying them with guns, manpower, ammunition, high-tech missiles, and what-have-you military support to help lay the groundwork for a Russian takeover (as in the Crimea). Now that a civilian aircraft has been shot down over the the disputed territory -- the game of war intensifies.
Many Ukrainians on both sides of this issue are suffering -- and will continue to suffer as supplies of everything: (food, products, gasoline, heating oil, etc.) will continue to be in short supply. A "siege mentality" may be put in place until all factions (including the US, the EU, and all contiguous countries) beg for a solution -- and that solution could be Russian rule.
My "friend from Donetsk" is a scholar, a teacher, now also an American; but she is also a child of Ukraine, Donetsk, and her parents who bore her and still manage to survive there.
Putin -- let your higher brain take over; let there be peace!
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