I am annexing your house. I am going to sign a statement that says your house belongs to me now and I’m going to REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!! until you recognize my right to have your house.
Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?
That’s the same thing as Putin arbitrarily claiming someone else’s country as his own.
Unfortunately, that is not what happened. The majority of the population had already voted well before this, tired of the corrupt Ukraine government.
Secondly, Russia isn’t going to entertain the possibility of a NATO country buttressed against the Black Sea fleet, just like we wouldn’t stand for a Chinese or Russian base in Mexico.......or Cuba.
This was all too predictable.