User blog comment:Jeremiah Garland/Random Poll/@comment-4034967-20140325173448/@comment-3112181-20140327020037

And yes, Jarod, I agree that the whole sequence of events is sketchy to say the least, but considering how a democratic process took place, I personally see nothing wrong with it.

I thought of a pretty good example today to put this in perspective: imagine if the US government was overthrown (just stating a point, NSA) and went into mass political chaos for weeks. Meanwhile, local state governments were given no federal regulation and were practically independent. The Mexican minorities living in, say, Texas, were then heavily abused and stripped of rights and privileges by the super-conservative legislation there. Since the federal government is in disarray, there's nobody to stop Texas from abusing these minorities. As a result, Mexico sees it is their right to protect their ethnicity and thus invade and subsequently takeover Texas. Is that fair? I think it is, considering how Mexico – and before them, Spain – owned Texas for centuries and saw it was their responsibility to protect all people of Mexican heritage who were subject to brutal treatment in a transitional, and thus powerless, federal government. Pretty much the same situation here, where Ukraine equals the US, Crimea equals Texas, and Russia equals Mexico.