Like a lot of western liberals you impose impossible standards on ideas and personalities you oppose.
Woudl that be like leaders in Russia serving their temrs and moving on, allowing other politicians to hold office like they do in other Demcoracies?
International observers were invited to witness the peaceful referendums in Eastern Ukraine but none went, and now the lack of observers is used as "evidence" of an illegitimate process.
I believe some comments on one of these threads addressed that there were observers.
Woudl that be like leaders in Russia serving their temrs and moving on, allowing other politicians to hold office like they do in other Demcoracies?
International observers were invited to witness the peaceful referendums in Eastern Ukraine but none went, and now the lack of observers is used as "evidence" of an illegitimate process.
I believe some comments on one of these threads addressed that there were observers.
Likewise a comment posted on the similarity of territorial expansion of EU/NATO over the past two decades and that of Nazi Germany is seized upon as a comment on the similarity of actions used to achieve those ends.
Well yes..., what other comparison should there be? If people vote to become part of the E.U., isn't that difference than being over run with troops and tanks?
Why should I be critical if the free people of those nations voted to join the E.U.?
If the E.U. called elections two weeks before they were held, and claimed 98% of the voters had voted to join the E.U., I would be her saying no they didn't.