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The US hasn't annexed territory for nearly a century; furthermore, this is how things were done by powerful nations during the colonial era, but now we have a little thing called the UN Charter and the Nuremberg Principles which prohibit aggressive wars of conquest and have since WW2, it's called international law and Putin overtly violated it with the annexation of the Crimea.
I could give a **** about international law when the vast majority (well over 80%) of a region vote to leave their country. Canada allows it's provinces to leave with only a referendum vote of about 65%...the referendum in the Crimea was over 80% to join Russia.
And Putin was smart to deploy his troops as he did...and I guarantee you it saved lives since he did not allow Ukraine to fight for the land - as it is doing in the Donetsk region. The Ukraine is willing to kill it's own citizens rather then let them leave even when the vast majority of that region's citizen's vote to leave (like they also did in the Donetsk region).
Putin is a pig. But the Kiev government is at least as bad in this case and far, far more stupid. They illegally overthrew a government that was legally elected and all those knuckle heads had to do was wait a few months for the next scheduled elections to throw the guy out. But no, these idiots could not wait and look what the result is...Ukraine is a mess.
And America are WAY worse then Russia in terms of killing people. They have killed thousands of innocent civilians over the last 12 years. Overthrown regimes whenever they felt like it. Supported horrible regimes like the one in Saudi Arabia (which beheads FAR more people then ISIS). They commit technical acts of war by bombing countries with drone strikes. They detain innocent people for years without charge. Sure, Russia has done wrong. But compared to them, America hais done WAY worse.
And save your answer, I have NO respect for you on this subject and could care less what your closed minded response is.