I’m not sure we’re in a position to talk much. Kosova (as Clinton called it) was part of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) for centuries. The people there became more Muslim and decided to start a civil war. The Serbs, justifiably, said no...you are part of Serbia, and resisted. What do we (NATO) do? We bomb the crap out of civil targets in Belgrade until they capitulate. [and by they, the Saudis have now turned Kosova into an Islamic terrorist base]
What happened in Crimea? The population there, almost all ethnic Russians, wanted to be part of Russia again, given their despotic local leadership. Putin goes there, severs off Crimea from the Ukraine, and that is that (I should note, Putin didn’t bomb the daylights out of Kiev to get his way, either).
So we sever Serbia because the people there didn’t want to stay Serbian, and Putin severs Crimea because the people there didn’t want to stay as part of the Ukraine.
...am I missing something?
Well written & cogent. Most people are not aware of the demographics of Crimea and half of the Ukraine.
Yep. The West, Bush Sr.-Clinton took the side of the Bosnian Muslims against the Christian Serbs. Russia was against intervention by the West in the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. That didn’t stop the West from helping bomb the Serbs, taking the side of the Kosovo Albanian-Muslims etc. So the West can’t shut the *&ll up when Russia took the side of the ethnic Russians in the Crimea.