Russia's military presence in the Black Sea and on the Crimea predates the founding of the United States of America. I agree that Russia might inflate the reaso

Russia's military presence in the Black Sea and on the Crimea predates the founding of the United States of America. I agree that Russia might inflate the reasons for its intervention, but there is a lot of geo-political influence at stake here. The hypocrisy surrounding this scares me. If the NSA is spying on foreign citizens, other governments or foreign corporations everything is well because protecting national interest is OK. If other countries are faced with similar decisions and act in their own national interests, its 19th century style behavior and has to be condemned. > "You just don't in the 21st Century behave in 19th Century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped-up pretext," Mr Kerry told the CBS program Face the Nation. Coming from a US official this sounds very much like a bad joke. Imagine a different scenario: One of the the less stable EU members with a US base (basically all of them) has a revolution and the winning party plans to get rid of the US military bases. What is going to happen? Is the US just going to give up on it? Does it depend on the importance of the base (think Rammstein)? I'm sure no one doubts that the US would intervene in some way.