Talk:Ukrainian Civil War (UCW)/@comment-24562445-20140302054237/@comment-4093403-20140303155039

The fascists only count for a very small part of the Euromaidan, and the new government can't be held accountable for their actions. And it's completely false when Putin and the Russian media say that ethnic Russians are in danger. I've read many posts by Russians in Ukraine denying that they are in danger, and they also report that they don't many of the pro-Russian demonstrators, thus indicating that some of them were orchestrated by Russia. I know that many Ukrainians want to be close to Russia and I know that the Crimeans want to be either independent or a part of Russia, but it's just not okay that Russia just illegally invades the peninsula.

You mentioned the US also breaking international laws... It's true that the US and other Western countries many times have intervened in other countries, but I believe that we have greater justification for doing this. When we, the West, intervene, we do it to get rid of a murderous dictator, whereas Russia has no proper reason for invading Crimea other than wanting to keep that naval base. Now you might say that we have also intervened for selfish reasons, and that's true, but our overall goal has always been to rid a country of a dictator.