First of all, have you read the Budapest memorandum? No. Secondly, this was Crimea's choice, not Ukraine, nor Russias' nor Washingtons. BUT HEY, why don't you go to Crimea and tell 'em that their wishes are not going to be considered because of what Ukraine wants. Let me know how that goes. Thirdly, Crimea requested for Russian troops (even BBC reported on this, no "Russian propaganda" here, sorry to anyone who is reading this) as they received threats from Right Sector that Crimea will be attacked. Not only that, 1.5 years after annexiation, Americans and Germans both surveyed Crimeans and deduced that only 1-2% were against annexation after all that time. And finally, Russia attacked eastern Ukraine? According to whom? The country that is making all the money from draining Ukraine, or according to OSCE and UN where both are saying that there are NO Russian troops in Ukraine. Srsly, if Russia would be at war with Ukraine, there'd be no Ukraine.....