I'm guessing this popped up here after appearing on reddit yesterday. John Oliver did a good report on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y1ya-yF35g&list=UU3XTzVzaHQ...

http://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/2bxfzq/john_oliv...

It's pretty frakked up.

Edit: Oh, and the cold war is heating up: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/2c1emy/russia_may...

None of this is settling.