No Surprise: 95% of Voters in Crimea Vote to Join Russia
More than 95% of voters in yesterday’s referendum support Russia’s takeover of the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine, says chairman of the Sevastopol legislative assembly Yuri Doynikov. http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/mar/17/crimea-votes-to-leave-ukraine/
Voter turnout reached 80%. http://voiceofrussia.com/news/2014_03_17/Referendum-in-Crimea-official-result-to-be-announced-on-17-March-first-data-show-96-vote-for-Russia-7828/
Both the voting results and world reactions seemed fully predictable. Hague spokesmen called the referendum a mockery. http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2014/03/17/330130/crimea-result-makes-a-mockery-of-democracy-says-hague.html
Stock markets ended in the red last week before the referendum. http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/126581/stock-market-news-for-march-17-2014
Western governments now mull adding sanctions to those already to be approved later today. http://www.tolonews.com/en/afghanistan/14214-crimea-votes-to-join-russia-west-mulls-new-sanctions
HFS analysts forecast continued anxiety in the stock markets despite the referendum, as fallout from Crimean politics appears to have just begun.
What do you think?
I think America and Europe should back off on sanctions since they won’t do any good anyway and it just makes the West look all the more weak. Russia holds the key card – oil. Game/Set/Win for Russia.
maybe ,they are thinking ( to go out of the crisis !) about a good war …like in the old time and like in the old good time they gesticulate many much