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.
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.