CRIMEA HAS DECIDED TO BECOME JOINED WITH RUSSIA If Ukraine and Crimea fail to defend themselves against the Russian military incursion, why on Earth should we be concerned about Ukrainian sovereignty? “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right—a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world. Nor is this right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people, that can, may revolutionize, and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit.” Senator Abraham Lincoln in a speech before Congress on January 12,1848 washingtonpost/world/russias-putin-prepares-to-annex-crimea/2014/03/18/933183b2-654e-45ce-920e-4d18c0ffec73_story.html
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 21:15:45 +0000
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