Quote Originally Posted by sabang
The formation of the states of East Timor, Southern Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Israel, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro and Kosovo (amongst many others) must surely infuriate you then. As must the reunification of east and west Germany.
How do any of these examples bear any similarity to the theft by threat of violence of Crimea from the nation of Ukraine?

Quote Originally Posted by sabang
I'm sure you would glady go to righteous war over the fact that the recent Referendum on Scottish independence was voted on only by the Scottish people, and not by the rest of the United Kingdom.
No, it was voted on by residents of Scotland, which included 500,000 non-Scottish people. What are you blabbering on about anyway? The point is not that people outside the region in question should have a vote. The point is that the voting process has to be consented to by the nation that will lose the seceded land.