Will Russia Invade Ukraine To Stop It's Presidential Election?

Ready, Mr. President. Reuters/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti

If Putin invades Ukraine again, it will be to stop the presidential election -- Steve LeVine, Quartz

Reports continue to flow in of a large, combat-ready Russian force building up near Ukraine’s eastern border. That suggests Russian president Vladimir Putin is at least giving himself the option of a new invasion.

The question is what would prompt one. Although Putin’s movements in the Ukraine crisis have seemed unpredictable, one potential trigger is to stop Ukraine’s May 25 presidential elections and the consolidation of what he views as an antagonistic, pro-Western government on Russia’s border.

A little over a month after Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych was ousted and Russia invaded Crimea, Russia’s foreign ministry today denied that there is a threatening Russian force on the border; just a training exercise, it insisted.

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My Comment: I do not see this happening .... the blow-back will be serious. But I do know that if Yulia Tymoshenko wins the elections .... the Russian government will be very displeased and will try their best to make it difficult for her government to survive .... especially now after these telephone conversations were released.