True guka we know West and NATO have sided with rebels in many occasions including Libya and recently Egypt. It's obvious that's had US been 'nearer' than Russia, they'd have been the first to enter, and say they'read protecting their citizens,then afterwards set up base. Russian reaction was just natural.

Let Ukrainians go to the box and decide.

I wonder why people are surprised at this move. It is the oldest trick in the book of state expansion and also the cause of a few wars. Cases in point:

Annexation of Texas from Mexico by the United States...... well, they first declared themselves independent before joining the US. American settlers went to Texas then part of Mexico halafu wakaanza kuleta kichwa ngumu ati wananyanyaswa. They took up arms and defeated the Mexican Army and declared a brief independence only to later join the US.

Hitler's main reason for going to war was the protection of German people living in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria etc. His excuse, those other serikalis were nyanyasaring the German people in their territories. His solution, let us have one big country of Germans only so the land that is occupied by any German will be part of Germany.

Israels refusal to have a 2 state solution. We are protecting our people (settlers) in the occupied territories.

Russia knows nobody will be throwing stones because they have all done it before.

@Kusadikika you've summarized it in the best way. US do these tricks all the time, and no one condemns. And they are still occupying some countries until now, and we know how they ended there.

[quote=D32]Complimentary: A brief glide through history to why Putin is fighting for Crimea.

http://www.independent.c...is-russian-9162734.html[/quote]


I just love history. Thank you, D32.

Now they want to apply international law, but when the ball is on their side they apply "Foreign Policy"!

Hypocrates!!