"Please God, get rid of Putin!

Sure Vladimir Putin, whatever you say. Crimea's population is up to 60% ethnic Russian, so break it off from Ukraine, in part by a likely fraudulent balloting process that claims a 95+% level of support for transferring the district to Russia., so break it off from Ukraine, in part by a likely fraudulent balloting process that claims a 95+% level of support for transferring the district to Russia. Reminds me more than a bit of another aggressor, Adolf Hitler. Der Fuehrer insisted Sudetenland Germans belonged in his "Thousand Year Reich." So Hitler worked out a deal with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain that enabled Nazi Germany to annex large parts of The Sudetenland, or "South-east land" from Czechoslovakia. Chamberlain called the pact "Peace In Our Time." That sordid September 1938 deal is more widely known to History as "Appeasement." Particularly since Hitler soon incorporated ALL of Czechoslovakia into his "Gross Deutschland," or "Greater Germany." Such a profound historical lesson should not be lost on the world community today. Since Crimea was "given" to Ukraine by Nikita Khrushchev in 1954, and remained with Ukraine after the Soviet Union split apart in 1991, it should stay "as is," and not just for the sake of national sovereignty. More powerful Leaders (like Russia's) shouldn't start monkeying around with established national borders in Europe and elsewhere. Certainly not for the sake of their own hunger for power, avarice and vanity. But since Russia is clearly determined to detach Crimea through either brute force or clever artifice, it follows logically that Russia lays no valid claim to the breakaway republic of Chechnya, whose population is 95.3% CHECHEN. Of course this whole Crimean crisis is complicated. Obama and the other "Western" leaders don't have military options, thankfully. Not without the prospect of starting WW3, they don't. Any idea that the US, Britain or other countries should attempt a military response is sheer madness; Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham surely must know that already. Nor can the US President impose economic sanctions - as he just did - upon other nations for their violations of international law, without "hypocritizing" himself silly. Remember Obama's destructive escalation in Afghanistan. Remember Fallujah. Remember the Invasion of Panama in 1989, and so many other interventions of that kind - all ILLEGAL and UNJUSTIFIABLE. The US doesn't have an ethical leg to stand on. Putin is an international criminal who should face some kind of "peaceful," effective sanction, as impossible a prospect as that appears. But "The West" is not a part of the world morally qualified to declare such sanctions. Nor are all those on the "Ukrainian Side" guiltless. There's MORE than enough culpability to go around. But I still maintain Ukrainians as a People have as much right to their territorial integrity as any other nation. As the Pussy Riot women rightly shouted in that Moscow Cathedral: "Please, God, get rid of Putin...!" P.S: Just as a matter of fact-checking: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea#Ethnic_groups