Using your NATO expansion argument, the Luhansk, Kherson, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are holding safe and secure elections to join Russia for protection from NATO, Washington and London.
“Using your NATO expansion argument, the Luhansk, Kherson, Donetsk and Zaporizhzhia regions are holding safe and secure elections to join Russia for protection from NATO, Washington and London.”
False analogy, because the former Soviet satellites are independent and sovereign nations, and they joined NATO as whole nations.
That is not the case with the separatists in Ukraine. I have no issue with them voting, as long as they follow the law, as set forth in the Ukrainian constitution, which does provide for such referenda, but with the qualification that ALL citizens of Ukraine get to vote on the matter (as it affects them all) and not just the residents of the separatist territories.
It’s simple: Just follow the law.
Just 🙄.