The assumption now widely held about Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions concerning Ukraine are that his Spetsnaz infiltration forces, and the troops attached to Russian military intelligence (the old MVD), will continue to spread disorder and anxiety in eastern Ukraine, encouraging pro-Russian separatists to go on seizing and fortifying municipal and other official buildings in eastern Ukraine towns.
Russian television and other propaganda media will continue to promote the notion of a general rising in the region by citizens seeking reunion with Mother Russia, offering mass resistance to attack by the substandard Ukrainian army (such as it remains), now serving the "fascist" parliament installed in Kiev and backed up by U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, who has arrived in Liev.
This will be followed — as this scenario of what Putin plans, and how America will react, continues — by the rescue of these pro-Russian citizens of what Putin, imitating the czars, now calls "New Russia," by the 40,000-man Russian regular army that has been waiting at the Russian-Ukrainian frontier to be turned loose. It will reconquer the Russian-speaking Ukrainian regions that were once ruled by the czars.
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