User blog comment:Spartian300/Russia invades Ukraine. Predications?/@comment-4919678-20141107151930/@comment-3398633-20141108011754

Russia won't invade the Baltic states because they are apart of NATO. Ukraine refused to join any such alliances and its military is crap with a lovingly capitalized "C". It would take nothing for the Russians to rebuild the Soviet Union with the exception of the Baltic states. The United States won't intervene because the people won't allow another, far more serious conflict take place, and the European Union is in no financial state to stand up to Russia. After all of the previous conflicts they got dragged into, and the fact that the Europeans have softened dramatically since WWII, the EU won't be fighting any real wars for a couple of decades. As far as the world is concerned, the former Soviet Union isn't worth dying over, especially when, with the exceptions of Kazakhstan and Belarus, those regions aren't particularly resource-rich nor strategically important.

Crimea had been Russian land for centuries, and only within the last sixty years had it fallen into the hands over another power. Mind you, Khrushchev, a Ukrainian himself, gave that land to Ukraine, not the Russians. So Crimea will remain Russian territory, and there is no hope of it ever returning to Ukraine, especially when the majority of Crimean residents support Russia over Ukraine. Also, the United States and Europe do not like being nuclear wastelands as much as Russia does, and they won't be taking any military action to stop Russia if they do invade. The only people calling for a war or saying Russia is up to something are the Ukrainians, the Poles and the Baltic states, all who have the most to lose from a reborn Soviet Union (which the majority of Russians and post-Soviet states are actually quite supportive of).

That said, the Russian rape train has no brakes. Choo choo, baby, choo choo.