My thoughts on the Ukraine/Russia Crisis

So I'm pretty sure that everyone knows about what's going on in the Ukraine right now. The president who was hugely unpopular gets thrown out a la Egypt, and replaced by the opposition leader. Ex-president flees to Russia, home of all the most wanted fugitives right now, so it seems, and claims that he is still legitimately president of Ukraine. Russia sends troops into the Crimea, part of the Ukraine, which, although part of an agreement with the Ukraine as it's where the Russian Baltic fleet is based, seems slightly provocative. Coincidentally at almost exactly the same time, the main airports in the Crimea, as well as the local parliament building, are all occupied by mysterious soldiers, heavily armed and armoured, with no insignia to identify them whatsoever... these soldiers are also supported by Pro-Russian Ukrainains... fishy eh! Today it appears that Putin wants to send soldiers into the Ukraine to sort the situation out... erm hasn't he already done that but taken their insignia off?

Those who know me personally will know how wary I am of Russia, and especially of Dobby Putin. As an Ex-KGB agent, I think that Putin is Communist through and through. What I reckon he wants most of all, is to go back to "the good old days" of the USSR, where as president, he would be more equal than everyone else. Why else would he be acting in such an aggressive way! This isn't the first time he's done this, Putin has past form. Think Georgia 2008, Putin used force there as Georgia lost control of the Russian supported region of south Ossetia. I think we're about to see the same thing happen again in Ukraine.

Why is the world just sitting back and letting Putin do this? Are we all that scared of Russian military capabilities that the UN or NATO will just let Putin slowly put back together the USSR? If something like this happened in a country with much less military capability would they sit back? I very much doubt it... they let Bush invade Iraq and Afghanistan on something far less than this. Surely an aggressive move by Russia like this demands severe sanctions.
From a sporting perspective, I believe that Russia should now have every major sporting event in the next 10 years taken from it, for example the 2018 world cup. Yes, they put on a good winter olympics, but to follow it up, on the eve of the winter paralympics with such a blatant display of force and aggression is in my eyes, unforgivable.

Whilst I've been writing this, the BBC app on my phone has flashed up saying the Russian Upper house has given Putin permission to invade the Ukraine.