[ZoeZoeBee]

You might want to brush up on your history, mainly the part where the Ukraine has been part of Russian territory for most of the last 350 years, and while you're reading maybe you'll discover the reason Russia had to act with regards to Crimea.

[AnimalMuppet]

Had to? No. Chose to.

[ZoeZoeBee]

Right, they could have made the choice to let their strategic naval base in Crimea fall under the sphere of NATO, despite the obvious problems with that

[Sommersonn]

It wasn't _their_ naval base in Crimea.