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Yeah, I can get on board with that to an extent. I think you have to look at it in the historical context where Stalin had strong-armed half of Europe into his sphere, where they were either absorbed into into the USSR or just puppet states who answered directly to Moscow. Regardless how one feels about communism (I'm pretty left myself) it was a fucked up autocratic oppressive govt. This whole fiasco is eerily reminiscent of that, I have friends in the Baltic states, Poland, and Georgia who you can tell are still traumatized by the Soviets & Iron Curtain stuff.
So in a way Europe does feel like it has implications for them, if Putin can easily grab territory in the name of Restoring Russia like that without repercussions (and the precedent was set in South Ossetia and Abkhazia which Bush complained but ultimately did shit about), what is stopping him from Restoring More Of Russia? So it matters to them. If the USA weren't close allies with western Europe, I personally think Obama would rather stay the fuck out of it.
Hypocrisy everywhere tho, big powerful countries will always do what they want with weak small countries, until they're opposed with equivalent power.
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