User blog comment:EthanConquistador/Crimean Crisis/@comment-26847796-20140319172542/@comment-6812733-20140320205234

I personally don't trust the elections since there were around 25 000 russian troops in Crimea AND the guy who seemed to be the guy in charge of the elections was very pro-russian. And the people didn't even have a choice to stay in Ukraine. It was either "independent" Crimea or Crimea in Russia. In other words, Crimea would be integrated into Russia wether you wanted it or not.