No idea Kman…. -35. Although it wouldn’t surprise me if they propped it up.
I do find The West’s position very hypocritical after what they did to Iraq, Libya etc, but the propaganda machine in The West is very powerful and is making Russia full on villains. They have a point… the guy ousted was elected. The guy now in charge was not. 143,000 Ukranians asked for asylum during ‘the coup’, and the new people in charge banned Russian as a language for use in official circumstances.
The West have far more to lose than Russia imo. I wonder if they are going to blame Russia somehow for their own bankruptcies. All a big game.