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					Originally Posted by thenry  Why does one need backing up if that one entity quest is legitimate? Somebody berating Russia isn't going to achieve anything. They live a different way, accept it, this world is full of different people.
 Russia felt threatened and they responded.
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 Good grief this is naive.
That’s how the world worked prior to the early 20th century.  Great powers and spheres of influence.  Post WW2 there is a rules-based world order which the United Nations Security Council is meant to enforce.  You know, the UNSC that Russia is a permanent member of?
‘They live a different way’ excuses a whole lot of bad behaviour within one’s borders, but territorial conquest of one state by another is absolutely forbidden by the rules of the organisation Russia is meant to be a principal member of.  They can’t have their cake and eat it, and nor should they be allowed to.