And we’re back…Russia will not ignore a request to Putin from Crimea PM for help in restoring calm

Yahoo News:

In Kiev, the new cabinet led by some of the main figures of at-times deadly protests against ousted president Viktor Yanukovych’s pro-Kremlin rule opened its first meeting with the twin spectres of secession and default hanging over Ukraine.

The new government was dealt a new jolt when Russia’s energy giant Gazprom bluntly warned Kiev that it had accumulated a “huge” debt for unpaid natural gas that needed to be urgently paid.

Not only was that a major precipitating factor in all this, but gas to Ukraine was SHUT OFF to ‘exert pressure’ on the people in their voting. I am reminded of criticisms of United Fruit on this one.

Crimea’s newly-chosen prime minister followed that up by calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to help restore “peace and calm” amid his standoff with the Kiev authorities.

"Taking into account my responsibility for the life and security of citizens, I ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to help in ensuring peace and calm on the territory of Crimea," Sergiy Aksyonov said in an address broadcast in full on Saturday by Russian state television.

A source in the Kremlin administration soon told Moscow’s three main news agencies that “Russia will not leave this request without attention.”

Any questions?

Yes, I hear you. No the USA will attend the GS-8 in Sochi, anyway, because we realize we have to keep up the appearance that we can achieve nuclear disarmament, which is far more important to far more people than the battlefield at Balaclava.

Oh, here is one from the left

And here is one from the right

There is blood in tropical waters, and sharks all around. Crimea and Ukraine and what Russia is doing are only symbolic of who and what the USA is right now.

Why do we even bother with a White House press corps when there is no point to anything Obama has to say, and no one WHO COUNTS out there in the real world, is paying attention?