Wrong!...
“The former Republican congressman and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul has launched a scathing attack on what he calls a US-backed coup in Ukraine, insisting the Crimean people have the right to align their territory with Moscow and characterising sanctions against Russia as “an act of war”.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/15/ron-paul-crimea-russia-sanctions-act-of-war
Rand sounds like a moron
Crimea does have the right to align itself with who it wishes.
That statement has nothing to do with defending Putin. It has to do with the right of Crimea to determine its own fate.
Stop assuming that everything in which the U.S. is not the policeman of the world is bad.