I am speechless; I can think of a dozen or so glib responses to put down this line of reasoning in a combative way. I will do my best to go against that instin

I am speechless; I can think of a dozen or so glib responses to put down this line of reasoning in a combative way. I will do my best to go against that instinct and instead say; 1) I don't believe necessarily that Crimeans are "Russian" 2) I don't believe that we can talk about a countries people as being homogeneous. 3) I don't believe we should be deciding what liberty people should be entitled to, that feels decidedly totalitarian to me, it would be very easy to decide that you dear reader are not entitled to liberty either, since you implicitly support *gestures broadly*.