[Laissez-faire capitalist]

What say you?

[Jim Robinson]

Neither.

[pallis]

Do it like what was done with Nova Scotia. Let Crimea choose to be independent, part of Canada, part of Great Briton, or part of the US, with a change their mind clause.

[JimSEA]

We have to remember that the whole Yugoslav breakup was a multi ethnic nightmare without a dominant outside power. I think it was a pretty unique setup and, remember, Russia was a basket case are the time. The Ukraine seems to be everyone against the numerous Russians. The ethnic areas aren’t nearly as well defined as Yugoslavia was.

[Mount Athos]

The Kosovo precedent was an earth-shattering change in international law, and will have effects for decades if not centuries.

Crimea won’t be the last to follow this precedent, it’s just the beginning.

At some point the world will have to reexamine the issue and decide whether both provinces have the right to self determination or neither do. Can’t have it both ways.

[Grzegorz 246]

“Ron Paul has basically said that Crimea has the right to self-determination and by extension a right to an independence referendum vote.”

LOL ! Just like Quebec blah blah and so on... It's not like Quebec, Putin's propagandists are “forgetting” that France hadn't really landed thousands of troops in Quebec, didn't put their puppet as a head of local government, didn't mass 150k troops next to Canadian border and no, France didn't pass a special bill allowing them to absorb Quebec with one simple administrative decision. Actually France was not involved at all.

BTW Putin hadn't given a damn about locals in Crimea and their right to self-determination until his puppet “President” of Ukraine was kicked out.

“The West cannot have it both ways. They can't say, for example, that the right of Albanians to self-determination in Kosovo trumps Serbia's right to territorial integrity”

So why Ukraine should pay for Kosovo nonsense ?

[joshua c]

How about something a little closer to home?

Can California hold a referendum to secede from the US and join Mexico?

[Hugin]

"The West cannot have it both ways. They can't say, for example, that the right of Albanians to self-determination in Kosovo trumps Serbia's right to territorial integrity, and then turn around and say that Ukraine's right to territorial integrity trumps the right of Russians in Crimea to self-determination."

You forget, the Kosovo Albanians are moozlims. Moozlims have special rights other people don't have.

[impimp]

On this matter I stand with Ron Paul snd Putin. I stand against Ted Cruz.

[iowamark]

The only reason that there are so many Russians in Crimea is because Stalin murdered or deported the natives and imported Russians. To pretend that this genocide has some legitimacy is nonsense. Having said that, there is little that the US can do about the region.

[jimsin]

WHO CARES...? IT'S THE AMNESTY STUPID! ALL OTHER ISSUES PALE IN IMPORTANCE TO THE DEADLY ISSUE OF IMMIGRATION CONTROL ......ALL OTHER LAWS CAN BE REVERSED BUT ONCE THERE IS A DEADLY INFLUX OF MORE NON ENTREPENEURAL NON PROFESSIONAL LOW SKILLED NO SKILLED IMMIGRANTS THEY STAY AND IT'S ALL OVER FOR THIS COUNTRY....WE BECOME CALIFORNIA! AND THE REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DONE AND THE CONSERVATIVE WAY OF LIFE IS TRASHED...

THE BRAINY BEAUTY ANN COULTER INSTRUCTS US BEST

READ AND HEED EVERY WORD

'As Milton Friedman has said: You can’t have open borders and a welfare state. For roughly the first three centuries of America’s existence, anyone could come here – and good luck to them! If they couldn’t make it, they went home. About 30 percent did. We skimmed the cream of the world! By the time of the American Revolution, this had created something distinctive about Americans, as described absolutely beautifully by Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America.” Even after the Democrats ginned up the welfare machinery, the country maintained the same national character and stayed largely the same demographically because our immigration policy imposed quotas to replicate the nationalities of the people already here. But in 1965, Teddy Kennedy’s immigration act intentionally changed the ethnicity of immigrants to favor those from the Third World and freeze out people from countries that had traditionally sent us our immigrants. Since the late 1970s, more than 90 percent of the immigrants to America have been from the Third World. This has led to wider income inequality, a higher crime rate, more unemployment and on and on and on.

The 1965 immigration act was the worst thing that ever happened to this country! Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/coulter-u-s-finished-if-amnesty-passes/#rpXLJKvQlV1UPRgf.99

[SECURE AMERICA]

Wow Ron Paul or Barack Obama.
Now there is a no win choice!

[Lorianne]

It’s up to the people of each region. It’s not our place to tell people who they should align with or if the want independence or not. What makes US the arbiter of these things?