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Vlad Putin (Poo Tin) has said today he wants to build the biggest army in the world and Russia will build 1000's of new tanks and war ships. He also said he does not believe in the validity of human rights. All this sparked by the events in Ukraine, in the last 2 weeks.
http://rt.com/news/putin-address-military-russia-125/WW3 soon! Buy !!! Sell who cares ?
In the event of WW3 what will happen to BTC ?
Same a Syria but on a much bigger scale probably, a backlash so big it scares the shit out of the powers that be and they back pedal to a peaceful solution at record speed. Global communication is a much more powerful thing than anyone expected and even trying to mess with those communications would cause riots (happened already with ACTA and equivalents).
Russia is very very different from Syria.
You're talking about a country that has made gays illegal and sent greenpeace hippies to a prison in Siberia. They just don't give a shit, and have been ruling with an iron hand for as long as memory serves. Also, if you take a look at the Ukraine videos, you'll see the level of violence is way above that of other protests around the world.
EDIT: also the only country where in the event of hostage situations, the norm is for all involved to end up dead.