Ukraina - on the edge

Always said that the only solution for Ukraine was a ceasefire followed by negotiations on a new federal structure guaranteeing ethnic Russians their rights. Putin would have accepted that from the beginning. Making Russia a pariah state serves nobody's interest. All Putin wanted was to secure his military base in Crimea plus rights of ethnic Russians. Not saying he doesn't dream if more but it is not in the agenda. To most Russians Eastern Ukraine was not a foreign country invaded but a part of the motherland accidentally severed when internal Soviet era administrative lines became national borders. What we ate seeing now is a long overdue realignment. Rattling sabres is ridiculous, especially by the wrong headed David Cameron desperate for any war to save his job, without thinking he might lose both!