A conflict like this serves well to highlight the general hypocricies of both the west and the Russians.
To start with the Russians, their standard tactic for delaying any military moves by other nations is to loudly claim that no countries internal matters should be meddled with, and/or wanting to run everything through the UN before anyone "has the right" to do anything, where they have a veto to block anything.
But when it comes to Russia meddling in Ukrainian matters, suddenly there's no such thing as sovereign countries internal matters, and not a peep of UN involvement. (Sorry Pointman, but no way Russia wants UN in on this. The Russians would't allow peacekeepers from anywhere but Russia, and no other countries are going to just suddenly start calling Russian invasion troops UN peacekeepers.)
On the other hand, the west talks a good talk of the right of regions as opposed to countries when it suits them, like it did in Kosovo. But when it's Crimeans were talking about, there's no hint of trying to let the Crimeans decide for themselves what they want to do.
Funny stuff. If you like your humor pitch black and bloodstained.
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