There is no such thing as "Pro Russian Militants" or pro-Russian anything.
You are full of yourself if you think that at very least one third (namely, the southseast) of Ukraine are not pro-Russian. Why don't you educate yourself before posting? For example read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05...
Russia is a corrupt cleptocracy run by criminals.
Completely baseless statement. Putin was the strongest, most organized and honest leader Russia had in about a century. He is the one who was cleaning up the Russian government from the criminals that took over in the 90s.
The Ukraine is being annexed on the behalf of a handful of Putin's ultra-rich backers that sit to make untold billions off of the natural resources they can exploit there. (Or ship through there via a pipeline)
Another completely baseless statement. Ukraine is a lot poorer than Russia. If anything, Russia has to subsidize Crimea and other annexed regions big time. There is no money to be made in Ukraine.
As for pipelines, Russia is already building an pipeline on the bed of Baltic to completely bypass these unstable Russophobic regions, like West Ukraine and Poland, to reach Germany directly. Once this pipeline is completed, all others become worthless.
Fortunately Russia is effectively a failed state.
Another baseless garbage statement. A failed state does not launch astronauts into space, field aircraft carriers, conduct Olympic games, or build oil platforms in the arctic.
So corrupt and screwed up that less than a month's worth of economic sanctions are making their house of cards criminal-run economy crater.
Those sanctions are toothless and have nothing to do with the real economy. Let me remind you that when the 2008 Georgian War started, the Russian stocks lost more than half of their value (a lot more than right now) immediate. Yet, they recovered in less than a year. The decisions of nervous western investors are pretty much meaningless. In less than a year, they will be begging to be allowed back into Russian stocks and businesses. Right now Russians are not going to cry a river over losing 1% of economic growth. The slowdown is temorary but annexing Crimea is forever. Big net gain for Russians.
Putin is also a bit of a coward. He'll give up in a few more months when his buddies who are no longer making money hand over fist start thinking about replacing him.
Another stupid and baseless statement. I follow Russian politics and I haven't seen any of key figures of Russian politics replaced within something like 7-8 years. It's exactly the same people running the show. It's actually getting boring IMO.