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In reply to the discussion: Even Russian human rights body finds Crimean referendum falsified [View all]The Magistrate
(96,043 posts)I also sympathize with the evident desire of peoples long subject to Russian dominance, whether Czarist or Soviet, to be shut of it.
I am sympathetic to 'buffer' arguments, in a situation where military action, actual invasion, is a possibility, but no one is going to invade Russia from the west, and everyone knows that.
I have no sympathy whatever for arguments which boil down to 'powerful state 'Y' should have the sole right of economic exploitation of smaller neighbors 'A', 'B', and 'C'. This is pretty much the basis of Russian actions and attitudes towards Ukraine, and no more than I support U.S. interferences in Central and South American affairs, on that 'only I can cream off profit from my smaller neighbor' grounds can I countenance what Russia is doing in Ukraine.