Nicolas Maduro: Ukrainian crisis is response to US and EU anti-Russian policy - March 19, 2014 - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has accused both the US and the EU of “double standards” over Crimea and recalled the Kosovo and Falkland Islands referendums as evidence. Maduro says the West is seeking to “eventually destroy” Russia.“There is a certain transnational elite that has been cherishing this dream for 300 years,” Nicolas Maduro said.
The Venezuelan leader criticized “the anti-Russian policy of the US and some European countries,”saying the crisis in Ukraine comes as a response to that.
“What has happened in Crimea is a response to the format that made Ukrainian democracy collapse. And there is only one reason for this: the anti-Russian policy of the US and some European countries. They seek to encircle Russia in order to weaken and eventually destroy it,” he said.
Putin is no Hitler. He's not even a Brezhnev. We didn't go to war with the communist USSR, and we don't need to with Putin's nationalist Russia over the Ukraine. We should pick our fights.