People here have no problem denying the ethnic Russians of the former Autonomous Republic of Crimea their free aspirations. We can’t keep rewriting the rule books, is it now perfectly OK for fascists to overthrew an elected government?

Why? We started the whole mess by backing an Ukrainian mob over a properly elected government in order to try to get Ukraine into NATO. We were determined to have a pro-Western government and if the current government would not, we simply endorsed their overthrow. Only then did Russia see a danger to the naval base…