I do not talk about Crimea, but Novorossia. Russia had a military base in Crimea, they don't have to justify their presence there. Does americans need to justify the presence of their troops in Poland, Balts, Rumania etc. ?
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but i talk about crimea because both events are linked.
the merkins holt a nato exercise in the baltics, thats why they have send some troops.
anyway, here is a recent survey of the frankfurter allgemeine zeitung.
http://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/deutsche-geben-putin-schuld-an-ukraine-konflikt-13489423.htmlshort summary:
55% of all respondents blame russia for the conflict in ukraine, 34% the seperatists, 20% the ukrainian government, 17% the united states and 6% the european union. (multiple answers were possible)
42% fear that the conflict will spread to other regions.
is the reason of the conflict the coup against yanukovych last year? 20% say yes.
7% believe that russia protects the residents in eastern ukraine from the government in kiev.
view of putin, 8% positive opinion, 66% negative opinion.
view of russia
67% see russia as a global power.
87% think that russia plays a important part in world politics.
but 64% have concerns about the stability of russia.
sanctions
39% say keep it, 19% more sanctions, 21% less sanctions
in 01/15 is was 44% for keep or more sanctions and 31% for less sanctions.