MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on Monday recognising Ukraine's Crimea region as a sovereign state.
Of course. Putin is just helping Crimea achieve the will of the people, freeing them from the oppressive West Ukraine government. How can the UN et al not support such “democracy”?
And of course, the new sovereign Crimean state will demand recognition as such from the UN.
And of course, the UN-recognized sovereign state of Crimea will then vote to join Russia - you know, just like Texas did.
Putin can play the “one-off rationalization game” as well or better than any Leftist, tying his opponents in knots by doing things the right way, just taking the result in the other direction. Now Putin has Obama on record imposing “bill of attainer” decrees outside his own empowered position, opposing democracy, opposing the rule of international law (whatever the he11 that is), defending oppression, stealing money, and generally looking like an idiot - while at the same time everyone knows exactly what Putin is doing and are powerless to oppose it, pissed off at the one person who SHOULD HAVE ACTED but instead played - and lost - the childish game of “community organizer”.