“Crimea was surrendered by the West and face was saved by preventing russian incursion into the Ukraine.”
Preventing incursion into Ukraine? Tell that to the thousands and thousands of people killed in Eastern Ukraine.
You can’t. They were murdered during the Russian “incursion” as were the hundreds on that Dutch airliner shot down by the same “green little” Russkies with no insignias on their uniforms.
SMH, this isn’t short term memory; it’s short term present.
The incursion was turned back or ceased.
Putin kept Crimea and the west kept him from Ukraine.
Win win (except of course for those that died in the process)