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As the US, EU and Britain huff and puff in barrel loads of clichés: "red lines" are "crossed", "sovereignty and territorial integrity" has been "violated", they stand "shoulder to shoulder" with their shoe-horned in fascist government in Ukraine, they are "resolute" against "Russian aggression", and will not "stand idly by", sanity seems in short supply.
US Secretary of State, John Kerry representing a country which makes Genghis Khan look like a wimp when it comes to illegal invasions, still retains the prize for jaw dropper of the decade: "You just don't, in the 21st century, behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pretext", he pontificated on CBS' "Face the Nation."
On the thirteenth anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq and the total destruction of it's "sovereignty and territorial integrity", by America and Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron has scuttled off to Brussels for a meeting of European Union Ministers to agree a "robust response" to Russia - who has fired not a shot, invaded no one and threatened nothing except to respond that if sanctions were imposed on Russia they might consider a trading response. Fair enough, surely?
The government of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea called a referendum, distinctly disturbed by the threat by Kiev's US proxy government that the Russian language was to have no status, and Jews and blacks would not be tolerated.
A fraction under 97% voted to cede to Russia, with a turnout of over 80% - an electoral enthusiasm of which Western governments could only dream.
As much of the main stream media and the usual politicians thundered of voting under pressure or even at gunpoint, one hundred and thirty five international observers from twenty three countries said, consistently, they saw no pressure of any sort, and they had "not registered any violations of voting rules."(1)
Comment: Looks like the adults in Moscow are being forced to respond to the teenage brats in Washington, in their usual calculated and reasonable fashion. How anyone can take Western "leaders" seriously anymore is beyond us, and watching all of this play out over the past few months has been like watching one excruciating extended version of Idiocracy.