is Ukraine a warning to every other country that borders Russia that wants to become pro-western?

[Spenser]

[Michael]

Third warning if you add Moldova and Georgia.

[Lost Equation]

Ukraine is split in half. Part of the country wants to join the European Union (EU) and the other part is pro Russia. Ukraine borders with seven countries: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Russia, and Belarus. Four of the countries that border Ukraine belong to the EU (Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania).
There is no way that Putin would try and attempt to take over those countries...not that he wouldn't want take control of all of europe, but it will never happen.
Putin wants as much territory as possible. Ukraine is weak military and he knows it. He does not want them to become part of the EU.
Time is going to tell what the outcome will be because Ukraine has a dvidided ideology .

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The warning was Latvia and Greece.

The Looting Of Ukraine Has Begun
According to a report in Kommersant-Ukraine, the finance ministry of Washington’s stooges in Kiev who are pretending to be a government has prepared an economic austerity plan that will cut Ukrainian pensions from $160 to $80 so that Western bankers who lent money to Ukraine can be repaid at the expense of Ukraine’s poor. http://www.kommersant.ua/doc/2424454 It is Greece all over again.
Before anything approaching stability and legitimacy has been obtained for the puppet government put in power by the Washington orchestrated coup against the legitimate, elected Ukraine government, the Western looters are already at work. Naive protesters who believed the propaganda that EU membership offered a better life are due to lose half of their pension by April. But this is only the beginning.
The corrupt Western media describes loans as “aid.” However, the 11 billion euros that the EU is offering Kiev is not aid. It is a loan. Moreover, it comes with many strings, including Kiev’s acceptance of an IMF austerity plan.
Remember now, gullible Ukrainians participated in the protests that were used to overthrow their elected government, because they believed the lies told to them by Washington-financed NGOs that once they joined the EU they would have streets paved with gold. Instead they are getting cuts in their pensions and an IMF austerity plan.
The austerity plan will cut social services, funds for education, layoff government workers, devalue the currency, thus raising the prices of imports which include Russian gas, thus electricity, and open Ukrainian assets to takeover by Western corporations.
Ukraine’s agriculture lands will pass into the hands of American agribusiness.
One part of the Washington/EU plan for Ukraine, or that part of Ukraine that doesn’t defect to Russia, has succeeded. What remains of the country will be thoroughly looted by the West...
At this time of writing it looks like Crimea has seceded from Ukraine. Washington and its NATO puppets can do nothing but bluster and threaten sanctions...
http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2014/03/...ine-begun/

[Mujer Alta]

Nope. The current situation is all about Russia taking back a part of itself that was given to the Ukraine 61 years ago. Russia also doesn't want to be bordered by an inherently unstable country. Imagine Mexico or Canada always in some kind of turmoil and on the verge of civil war. There's no way a neighboring country won't become involved. If nothing else, refugees are going to be a problem.

The Crimea and Ukraine each has a long history with Russia. The Crimea is Russia's Florida. Russians spend their summer vacations there on the beaches. They have summer homes there. It was part of Russia until Nikita Khrushchev "gifted" Ukraine with it in 1954. Khrushchev was a Russian but worked his way up in the Ukrainian Communist Party and felt a special connection to Ukraine. Back in 1954 the Ukraine, which also has a long history as a Russian dependent, was part of the Soviet Union and everyone expected that situation to last forever. With dissolution of the USSR and Ukraine's independence - and Khrushchev and his close ties to Ukraine long dead, it's really not surprising that Russia might want the Crimean peninsula back.