Can't say this yet, Obama might want to sacrifice the areas in the Ukraine populated by Russians to make sure they'll never intervene with their vote in Ukrainian politics again, and the smaller country will become a staunch American ally. Do we agree that the Ukrainian puppet government of now can say and do nothing without the approval of the 'West'? So why antagonize the Ukrainian Russians further by trying to ban their language, later retracted, and shutdown of Russian language TV and radio stations in the Ukraine, still in effect? Yes they watch Putin Russia TV because their own has been turned off. The segregation of the Ukrainian Russians has been going on for some time. Did you ever hear the term 'Holodomor' during the cold war? This bullshit was invented for the 'revolution' of pineapple face, the first wave of open anti-Russian propaganda in the Ukraine.