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Ron Paul: Crimea secedes. So what?
Residents of Crimea voted over the weekend on whether they would remain an autonomous region of Ukraine or join the Russian Federation. In so doing, they joined a number of countries and regions — including recently Scotland, Catalonia and Venice — that are seeking to secede from what they view as unresponsive or oppressive governments.
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Is he actually saying that the world should just sit back and allow nations to annex portions of other sovereign nations? Trying to compare the situation in Crimea to Scotland is just disingenuous; if the people in Crimea had arranged this referendum prior to the invasion, the conversation would be quite different. Also, not to go Godwin on this, but it seems that a similar maneuver was attempted in the 1940s -- the Anschluss.