If I was Crimean - I would vote to join Russia.
Why? Because I see Kiev cannot even keep the country together, it cannot count on the West to protect it.
But I can count on Russia - it can be counted to be there when a call was put out for its help and its acceded to the request to allow Crimea to join it.
I would definitely rely more on Russia than on the West - and quite frankly, so would any sane person living in that part of the world.
An Obama promise is an expendable one.
Oh brother. You needed a barf alert for your own post.
So the only choice for the Ukraine is to remain a vassal state of Russian? Unbelievable.
Hopefully they were smart and saved a few tactical nukes just for this occurrence. If course you would still blame the Ukrainians for wanting freedom rather than to bend over to their Russian overlords.