Ukraine (closed; covers till August 2014)

[kaur]

Dayuhan:

the strategy so far seems to focus on the gathering of low hanging fruit, though in the case of Crimea the fruit was already on the ground and needed only to be picked up.

How you define the height from the ground?

When Vladimir Putin justified his annexation of Crimea on the ground that he owed protection to Russian speakers everywhere, this newspaper took a dim view of his line of argument, pointing out that since linguistic borders do not match those of states, it would lead to chaos.

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-w...#ixzz31bQcKfQN