Allowing Crimea to vote to join Russia would be like letting Richmond, BC vote to join China. You can't just move a ton of people to an area and then say it's yours. If Crimea was voting for independence, it would be a different situation. This is a segment of population that was placed there by a hostile regime years ago. To allow this tactic to work to expand your territory is a dangerous precedent, and as mentioned earlier would basically allow Russia to redraw the borders in all of the former Soviet states.
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