The Ukraine Explodes

As I and others had predicted, real violence erupted yesterday in the Ukraine. Not one or a handful but dozens were killed. And just as we saw in Syria, the bloodshed will only escalate from here. Do you not know that Russia will avenge the deaths tenfold, and Putin really will protect Russian people? A temporary triumph for the forces of Kiev will spell the end of Ukrainian authority in the eastern Ukraine and maybe the end of the Kiev regime. People cite the way Finland resisted Russia in the Winter War and the way the mujahideen expelled the forces of the USSR from their lands and say maybe the Ukraine can stand up in the same way to Putin, but this is a pipe dream. No ethnic Russian civilians were being bullied or butchered in Helsinki or Kabul, but the Russian people see the charred remains of their brethren and simply will not allow that to occur without repercussion. I am not rooting for Putin or Russia but for there not to be an unnecessary bloodbath that in the end will get many more ethnic Ukrainians killed than Russians in a war the Ukraine is bound to lose anyway.