Anyone else getting tired of seeing people carry water for homophobic expansionist tyrants?

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36. What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?

Russia's a signatory of the 1995 treaty that said it would not recognize any attempt on the part of Crimea to rejoin Russia and recognized the boundaries of Ukraine as legitimate, inviolate and not subject to future renegotiation...that wasn't a sucker deal for them by any stretch, it guaranteed them discussions maintaining future access to Ukrainian Black Sea Naval ports--subsequently, in the 1997 Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet, they obtained a lease for use, maintenance and access to the naval port at Sevastopol until 2017.

That's what this is really about...Ukraine is threatening to join NATO, coming up on the day when they can unilaterally expel Russia from garrisoning troops on their soil while severing Russian access to the Black Sea, and had an internal crisis that provided a pretext to violate the 1995 treaty and annex Crimea, insuring permanent future access to Sevastopol.

All Russian kvetchery about it amounts to hot air to justify an international crime, one that Russia agreed as recently as 1995 would be considered an act of war against Kiev and considered by NATO to be an act of aggression. They're lucky there's room for diplomacy based on their recent actions...but there is--provided they back down and abandon their efforts towards maintaining access to Sevastopol, annexing Crimea, stop supporting insurrections in former client states, and withdraw their forces. If there is need of a peacekeeping force...their assertion...then an international peacekeeping force which they will be excluded from will be assembled to prevent Ukrainian atrocities against the Russian-speaking people of E. Ukraine and Crimea.