Winnipegger Winnipegger:
MANPADS!?! That's a shoulder launch anti-aircraft missile! That's military hardware, and one costs as much as a large house. "Protestors" won't have that; this is Russian army weaponry. And grenade launchers? Send in the military.
But still, the CBC video tonight showed what they called protestors, I call insurgents, using rocks to overpower police. They took control of the prosecutor's office. Police there were in riot gear; they should have been able to handle that.
And yet, Russia will still continue to insist these are just average Joes trying to take their country away from facist radicals. Guess they learnt that trick from the CIA who armed the Mujahadeen to fight the Russians. At least they were paying attention to that one.