If there were no Russian troops in Ukraine, would the West allow a referendum just as was had in Serbia’s Kosovo region?
Territorial integrity didn’t matter then as it was majority Albanians voting for sovereignty in Kosovo. If there were majority Russian areas in Eastern Ukraine, the West would not allow a referendum, and would say the total opposite: territorial integtity must be maintained.
And that is why we are in the situation we are in: Kosovo opend up a major can of worms.
And we will continue to have problems until we have a system that is the same for the East and West/ U.S. and Russia -— with no hypocrisy.
What a bunch of hogwash. No sentient being can believe that Russia does anything other than what it wants, Kosovo or not.
“And that is why we are in the situation we are in: Kosovo opend up a major can of worms.”
Kosovo created the animosity, but a lot of other factors have led to the current situation.
Had Obama not been embarrassed by Putin over Syria, and the Obama-led US Government, as well as the OS NGO’s not stepped up the amount of instability in Ukraine as a result, do you think we’d be here now?
Putin is reacting to situations handed to him on a silver platter by the west.
There was no referendum in Kosovo. That’s just 0buttcrack propaganda.