I’m shocked....
This is Putin’s MO. Dump trainloads of Russian passports in an oil port tow, declare victimized Russians, invade, then rig a vote to join Russian for protection.
Next stop, Estonia.
All these border countries need to expel now. Close down borders so that Russia can’t send in thousands of ‘protestors’. You pick Estonia but there are any number of border countries who could be next.
They are already getting frisky in eastern Ukraine (there is another thread on shenanigans in the east).
But, but, but, we won the Cold War.
Everybody says so.
Not really.
Russians see Crimea as a special case, as part of the Motherland and themselves as righting a historical injustice.
The people living there after all are Russian and want to live in Russia and they do not see after Kosovo, why the West has any kind of say there.