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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
Interesting, I really wonder how the average Russian sees this, I suspect much the same.
I asked Pointman, what his contemporaries were saying/thinking but be never answered.
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Was a bit busy fooling around with my girlfriend ;-)
Now that I sit at McDonald's before going to work, I have some time.
First, it is hard to judge the "average" take on such a polarizing issue. However, in the nutshell, following opinions exist:
1. US/NATO was driving to our borders, so we just HAD to act. If we did not act, it would be a signal to US that they can do anything they want anywhere in the world. Our actions may be illegal and all, but it was merely a response we had to make to counter US actions, which are just as illegal and dirty.
2. Why the Hell do we need Crimea? It is god forgotten land. So what if we lose the fleet presence. When it was last time it fought anyway? The move will do nothing but bring us a lot of punishment in return for keeping the fleet base and maybe grabbing some useless land. Bad choice.
Other opinions are more or less extreme in one way or another. The majority, at least from what I can tell, is divided between those two opinions, with probably more leaning towards the latter.