The precedent was really set in Kosovo where Clinton backed the breaking off a piece of Serbia. The Russians have been waiting for a chance to do the same type of thing.
By the way, the same "neo-conservative" A-holes who are all up in arms over the Crimea secession today were the loudest cheerleaders for Clinton back in the 1990s when it came to bombing Serbia on behalf of the Kosovo separatists.
Like him or not, Putin is no fool. He knows exactly what these people are up to.
THANK YOU.
“The precedent was really set in Kosovo where Clinton backed the breaking off a piece of Serbia.”
BS! No western country annexed Kosovo or even had any troops there prior to their secession vote.
The majority Muslims wanted out of ‘greater Serbia’ like Bosnia, Croatia, etc. but the Serbs wouldn’t let them so they voted to secede from Serbia. Western intervention was in support of Kosovo’s secession. It was not to annex it.