Yes, there's a pattern here. Putin will fight for Russian survival against Islam if he has to, regardless of what the UN may vote. Also, keep in mind the largest voting bloc in the UN today is the OIS (Organization of Islamic States). [Side note: this is something else to contemplate as the Obama administration hands over the control of the Internet to an international body. Aka UN?]

Surprised someone else caught that.
A lot of effort has been made to avoid mentioning that angle.
When I see a conflict in the world, first thing I do is to type the name of the conflict and "Muslim" and then do the same with "Islam".

I get some interesting results - 12,000 Muslims cheering for the new Ukrainian government and check the story from that angle as well.

I've found one country not suffering violence from Muslims: Greenland, which isn't that odd a discovery.

We have 30,000 troops in Afghanistan. Their supplies go thru Russian controlled territory. Easy capture. We are outnumbered on the ground in Euroland, with little maritime heavy transport capacity. Navy is complaining they have no real amphib capability today. It is not your fight. Stay clear. Besides do you really want to have El Barack bin Obama as your C-in-C in a real shit pissing war? Do you really want to have war fervor allow the Left to hold the Senate. Mind your own business.

Here's some advice. Don't draw a gun unless you intend to use it. Because your opponent will see you draw, he will draw and fire. Ukraine is not my fight. WA DC started this with their manipulations in Ukraine. Pick your wars carefully. Wishing and hoping is the fun part, the killing is much less to your liking.

Very fitting quote, Ob1.

shocking- would our very own JihadistInChief do a thing like that? oh, wait.( sarc)
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see." - Ayn Rand, ATLAS SHRUGGED

As stated by iroseland below, Ukraine is an immensely complex topic.

Here, IMHO, is an additional fly in the soup.

The main stream press is spewing theories and guesses about Putin’s motives regarding Ukraine, but
they are not telling us the whole story because of political correctness. They don't tell us about the Islamic angle. In reality, I don’t believe Putin is trying to rebuild the old Soviet Union as some would have us believe. The media gives Obama a pass and the Obama administration policy seems to always be on the side of Islam (foreign or domestic). Keep in mind the Russians have been fighting the Mohamadans for centuries and the 20th and 21st centuries are no exception. The Crimea is a strategic trade route through the under belly of Russia and they cannot allow the region to be dominated by Islam. Under the old Soviet Union, the Muslim population was pushed out of the Crimea and was replaced by Russians. This eliminated the Islamic threat to Russia's trade to the Black Sea (bad enough, from a Russian point of view, the Turks are in control of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus). Under recent Ukrainian rule the Muslims were moving back into the Crimea in large numbers making it uneasy for the Russians (keep in mind the anti-Russian demonstrations in Ukraine had a large militant Muslim component). Although Ukraine needed to stay friendly with Russia, they adopted western PC to be more acceptable to the EU and US and did nothing to stop Muslim immigration to the region. Well, Putin pretty much tells the west to shove PC up its a** and will NEVER allow Islamic rule of the Crimea. This is why, IMHO, the Russians got involved in Chechnya, Georgia, and Afghanistan. Only three nations in the world are truly standing up to the spread of Islam: Russia, China, and India. The western nations, including the US, have virtually surrendered due to PC. Yeah, Russia and China are not our best friends and India is sometimes questionable, but they know Islam is bad news and are at least fighting it.

It's a tough call for the Russians because they can't fight us and the Muslims at the same time. They learned that fact in Afghanistan. If Obama gets the US involved over there, it won't be because of a "Free Ukraine", which is the lie he will feed the American People. It will be to weaken the Russians enough to hand over the Crimea to Islam. At the same time, expansion of Islam requires the crushing of Russia.

Can't seem to edit last post but circumspectnews has youtube links to a fascinating series- look up "BLOC HEADS"

Putin could try to starve them out like Stalin did

If its close to the relationship between New York and Florida ... most Floridians wish the New Yorkers would not visit Fl.

(Ive visited Yalta and you are right, it is a destination vacation area for Russians AND Ukrainians)

Too true in too many cases. There are those who dare but not enough it seems.

The US and Europe should not allow Putin to get away with his land grab. Wasn't he trying to do this in Georgia recently?

Both are lacking I'm afraid.

We'd first have to have some backbone in Washington, backed up by some 'spit in their eye gumption' from the American people.

It would show we are serious about helping. Good
idea.

I wonder what would happen if we moved the 101st into bases in Poland? Not into Ukraine, but near enough to deploy within 3 hrs. if needed?
I'm not suggesting we put them into a fight, just wondering what the reaction would be.

I think some there want to fight as well. Without US and Europe backing them up, fighting may just seem hopeless.

The countries attitude may be "We survived being in the USSR, we can survive being part of Russia". On the other hand they nay say "NFW we going back under those SOBs" and fight until they can't fight anymore.
If it were me, I'd fight.