tbh if that can end this shit for now, regardless of whether the vote was legitimate - let it. please, please let it.
i'm sorry ukraine, but i'd rather it end up this way than to broaden the conflict. at this point it seems to get russia out of crimea would require more foreign soldiers going in and if this conflict turns into outright america vs russia or european powers vs russia i feel like the ramifications for the world are going to be potentially much larger and more deadly than if it stays ukraine (albeit potentially with some armament from america/europe) vs russia.
i still don't get why russia stirred up the shit with its bare hands though. i would think it'd have been smarter to just sneak in weapons to the pro-russian segments of crimea and encourage the civil war that was pretty much on the brink anyway. i'm not saying that's more or less moral, i just mean that from a strategic perspective that seems to me more sensible than jumping in with both feet.
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i'm sorry ukraine, but i'd rather it end up this way than to broaden the conflict. at this point it seems to get russia out of crimea would require more foreign soldiers going in and if this conflict turns into outright america vs russia or european powers vs russia i feel like the ramifications for the world are going to be potentially much larger and more deadly than if it stays ukraine (albeit potentially with some armament from america/europe) vs russia.
i still don't get why russia stirred up the shit with its bare hands though. i would think it'd have been smarter to just sneak in weapons to the pro-russian segments of crimea and encourage the civil war that was pretty much on the brink anyway. i'm not saying that's more or less moral, i just mean that from a strategic perspective that seems to me more sensible than jumping in with both feet.