Quote Originally Posted by gRomoZeka View Post
I'm pretty annoyed with Ukraine's actions right now (to put it mildly). By insisting on declaring Crimea "an occupied territory", boosting national anti-Crimea hysteria, and threatening repeatedly with warfare, bans and whatnot it hurts not Russia but Crimeans, who are still Ukrainian citizens according to Ukrainian government.

Crimea is indeed in a very vulnerable position economically and geographically, and this situation should be handled with extreme care. The fact that the government seems to be perfectly willing to destroy it not to "give it away" bothers me.
That was inevitable and predictable. That is the problem of pluralistic societies. No politician is independent enough to make a responcible decision. That was shockingly painful strike on the national consciousness, hysteria was inevitable and politicians just flow in the current. Mr. Poo at once successfully made us degrade almost to the moral level of Russian society. That is the way geopolitics works.