[Kazan]

Apparently, you missed the fact that Ukraine cut the water off to Crimea after its citizens voted to leave Ukraine. And, to this day, still refuses to acknowledge Crimea as part of Russia.

And, Putin had more of more high ground in protecting the ethnic Russian population in Donetsk and Lugansk than we ever did in either Iraq war.

NATO funding, training and building a 600,000 man army after the illegal coup in 2014 installed a puppet government hostile to Russia was most certainly a national security threat to the Russians.

If China or Russia had done something similar in Mexico, we would have, justifiably, invaded.

[Magnum44]

No I remember that. A dispute over payments for water.

In 1954, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

After Russia took Crimea back in 2014, was Ukraine supposed to provide for Crimea for free?