“If it is not a hypocrisy, what is it?”
Ukrainians have the exclusive right to decide what happens to Ukraine. Russians have exactly zero right to decide what happens to Ukraine.
Whom do you mean by ‘the Russians’?
“Ukrainians have the exclusive right to decide what happens to Ukraine.”
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Not according to this guy:
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/01/van-rompuy-says-europe-will-expand-without-public-backing
If your ‘nation’ is polite fiction in peacetime, and a speedbump to real powers during wartime, you might just be a wog to the EU.