Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the UN has called for the immediate deployment of international observers to Crimea.
This might be exactly what Putin is looking for. There's no need to "annex" Crimea. Just letting Crimeans vote on their future under the watch of internation observers should be good enough. If there are fair and honest elections in Crimea, there's good chance they will vote to join Russia - simply because most are Russians and would like to live in rich country rather than in bankrupt unstable country.
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