User blog comment:EthanConquistador/Crimean Crisis/@comment-5590986-20140319214035/@comment-6812733-20140321210811

But if history matters to that extent then most of the nations in the world shouldn't even exist. With the history as reason, Germany should have all the rights to invade and annex most of Poland, Köningsberg and Baltic States into itself. Or France should have every right to take all of England (don't count Wales). Or Austria taking Czech Republic or Hungary taking most of Croatia and Slovenia and northern Serbia. Since these places have been gained in the last 100 years so of course they have every right, right?

But if we're going to go with Putin's style, "protecting" their own people, then shouldn't every nation just send their forces to almost every country in the world? Since there are alot of people who have moved to other countries and might have something bad to say about the country they have moved. And that could be used as an excuse to just bring in military forces to "protect" their own people. Just like Putin did in Crimea.

There are ways that could've ended in a win-win situation if Putin wouldn't try to recreate USSR all over again. For example: Russia and Ukraine would both aid the moving of russians out of Crimea since most of them wish to move to Russia and take jobs elsewhere in Russia (some are leaving Crimea for jobs basicly right now, so win-win, right?). Of course this is only one of the many possibilities that could've been gained by diplomacy if Russia would actually try to solve this through diplomacy.