Putin: ‘God knows’ why

Time has an article about Putin's latest:

Russian President Vladimir Putin said, for the first time, that Russian troops had been sent to the Crimea, which Russia annexed last month after it split from the Ukraine. He stressed that he had Russian lawmakers’ blessings to deploy military forces in the eastern Ukraine as well if necessary. “I remind you that the Federation Council has given the president the right to use armed forces in the Ukraine,” he said, referencing the upper house of Russia’s Parliament, according to the Times. “I really hope that I do not have to exercise this right and that, by political and diplomatic means, we will be able to solve all of the sharp problems.”
Putin’s comments come as Russia has massed troops along the border with the Ukraine after pledging to “protect” the large Russian minority in the region. Recent clashes between authorities and pro-Russian protesters have intensified in recent hours, as three separatists were killed during a firefight near a Ukrainian National Guard outpost.
“The question is to ensure the rights and interests of the Russian southeast,” Putin said, according to the Times. “It’s new Russia. Kharkiv, Lugansk, Donetsk, Odessa were not part of the Ukraine in Czarist times, they were transferred in 1920. Why? God knows. Then for various reasons these areas were gone, and the people stayed there; we need to encourage them to find a solution.”

Rico says God knows? Communism must really be dead...