[DoughtyOne]

Invading neighbors and taking land is no longer acceptable behavior.

Those nations desired to do business with the West. That was their big sin.

As for Crimea, there are legitimate ways to handle a situation like that. You don’t just march in and take possession.

The two countries should have held talks and worked something out. And if the Ukraine didn’t want it to happen, that’s their territory.

Putin didn’t have a legal leg to stand on there.

[caww]

Well obviously those "acceptable behavior" rules do apply to some more than others....I guess it would depend on how you take over another country today....some do so behind the scenes as we know. Proxy wars also come to mind.

As for nations desiring to do business with the West. Well that generally is up to the leadership of those nations how they go about that...but of course that doesn't mean the citizens are going to be happy how that plays out.

The only hope Ukraine could ever have is if some other nation got involved with their affairs of governance...they sure as heck haven't been able to do that for decades and decades. It's been a debtor nation and remains that...just the bosses they owe changes...and they will always "keep them" a debtor nation to control them.

Well they were involved with 'talks' even before the Orange and the latest revolution.....but when hasn't Ukraine been having a 'revolution' of one kind or another, that does see to be 'the language' they speak to settle their differences....even among themselves? ....Thus I would argue they lack greatly the ability to govern their nation as they do seem to be always in "thug mode"...so I'm not so sure they do well at "talking"....they do draw blood everywhere it seems....

Poor 'Yats' even got his frontage grabbed at one Parliament "talk".....