Is Obama demanding that Russia overthrow the current Ukrainian Junta with a violent foreign sponsored coup, which is how the current Junta came to power, and replace it with one of their own after they hold a sham election??

Beat, rob and starve the Ukrainian/Russian peoples as the current junta is doing, threaten its neighbor Poland as the current Junta is threatening Russia??

Impose martial law, and begin a massive military build-up, and a vicious campaign of ethnic cleansing that would cause millions of "anti-Junta" Ukrainian/Russians to cross into Poland as more than a million "anti-Junta" Ukrainian/Russians have already been forced to cross into Russia??

Is THAT what Obama and the EU are insisting Russia do?  To maintain "territorial integrity"?

This highly hypocritical  position is being taken despite these parties' prior and current attempts to Balkanize countries such as Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and the Sudan.

Well....sigh....if they insist, Russia may just have to do it to please Obama and the EU, but it seems undemocratic and war like to this website editor.

But to finally restore peace, and get the sanctions lifted, one supposes Russia must do what Obama and the EU want, even if millions of Ukrainian/Russians die in the process, even if tens of millions of Europeans die in the process, even if Poland is utterly destroyed in the process.

Even if Lavrov himself has to stand in front of a Gazprom logo and state proudly "We spent five billion dollars to overthrow Ukraine's government" while phone taps are released of him  picking its new leadership and saying "F*ck the E.U.", just as was later revealed with Victoria Nuland's infamous leaked phone calls and her comments in front of a Chevron logo, well.... sacrifices have to be made after all, right?

As trans-national Euro Kazarian Madeleine Albright once stated regarding a similar issue and the deaths of over half a million children...."It would have been worth it."

And that's the important thing.

Not a two decade long, multi-billion dollar, conspiracy to overthrow a democratically elected European government, or the massive ongoing looting of the country's wealth and savings, or the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of its people, these are just minor, unimportant, insignificant, issues.

In fact this new Obama/EU doctrine™ seems to state if you overthrow a government -- that's it, you "win"!!  -- No further discussion needed!  You can murder the entire population and steal everything not nailed down as long as the borders are kept "sacrosanct".

What a novel concept for the entire international community to embrace!  Seems counter productive and cruel to this website editor, as well as being a very dangerous precedent and policy for an entity like the European Union to adopt....

....considering Europe's past history....

....and its ongoing conflicts with the Euro and Greece.

Well....too late now! - mpg