“Europe is all wimps and Obama is incapable of rational action”
Fully agree with this part of your point.
Not much with the rest.
The West is intelectually incapable to get off the manichean scheme “we good, Soviets bad”. If you could have watched the political shows in Europe, you’d be astonished at the number of times politicians and journalists said “Soviet Union” instead of “Russia”, even though, the new generation of Russians, born in the late 80ies, NEVER lived in Soviet Union.
There is NO agression on Ukraine.
It’s highly ironical that the West and the putschistes from Kiev rely on the gesture of a communist drunkard like Krustchev, who attached Crimea to the SSR of Ukraine in 1954, to talk about “legitimacy”. Crimea has NEVER been truly ukrainian, since its conquest by Catherine the Great army in 1774, it belonged to Russia and later to SSR of Russia.
Anyway, the will of the people of Crimea will be known on March 16, when they decide by referendum on the future of their autonomous republic.
Ten days more to wait.
Demos - people, Kratos -power; that’s what the democracy is about. No to EU, no to NATO, no to UN, all non-elected entities; enough with them to make the law and oppose the peoples’ will, like they did also in Bosnia and Serbia and now in Ukraine.
I think, the Soviets are all bad. There are of course some accomplishments that have occurred despite them in the USSR, but the Soviet system is all, to the core irredeemably corrupt and evil -- the Evil Empire. EU may yet rise in its own evilhood, but at this point I fully understand the Ukrainian nation's decision to stick with Europe and not stay in Soviet Eurasia. It was not an easy decision for them, -- there were jokes about being stuck between a Moskal and a Gaystapo, but the final choice is there. I understand and applaud it. Maybe one day the Russian people, -- get their own maidan and be a great nation again. Now the last thing they should worry about is what Ukraine does with itself. Ukraine is gone from the Russian sphere for the foreseeable future. Russian is no longer a nation attracting peoples. Everyone fears them; no one respects them. Every other people under the Soviet system used the past 22 years to build up a national identity and to eradicate Sovietism in their lives. RF instead chose Stalinist nostalgia, military buildup and carbohydrate extraction economy. This is the outcome.
I understand that the Crimea and Donetsk-Kharkiv are historical Russian areas. If Putin did not invade with his unmarked little green men, there would have been a possibility of a plebiscite in a calmer environment. I don't think the Ukies should want an ethnically Russian, culturally Soviet appendage to deal with forever, either. Maybe one day a convincing plebiscite with reputable foreign observers can happen. It cannot happen so long as Putin is in power anymore. He is a discredited dictator, an aggressor, and a Soviet revanchist. Why would anyone trust for a second a "statesman" whose assessment of the 20 century is that the breakup of the USSR -- not the Second World War, not the murder of million innocents by Hitler, not the breakup, for example, of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but the fact that no one wants to be in the Soviet prison if they can help it -- is the greatest tragedy the world has known. He is a dangerous and delusional maniac with nukes.
Democracy is not my favorite form of government, but Democracy spoke in Ukraine. They have a legitimate government, -- the same Rada that had been elected alongside Yanukovith now impeached him. That possibly some regions would want maybe one day to secede is neither here or there now that we have a military confrontation engineered by Putin on the territory that does not belong to him.