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Ahem... *points to Ukraine*
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Crimea is heavily ethnic Russian, seeing as it was given to Ukraine in the early 1950s by Khrushchev when the USSR was having its hay day. While I don't exactly agree with Russia invading another nation's sovereign territory and setting up a speedy and probably fixed referendum, their justifications aren't entirely unfounded. When Russia started sending troops into Crimea, Ukraine was still in a huge upheaval with really violent protests, so saying they were protecting ethnic Russians kind of makes sense (I'm almost certain this isn't why they did it, but as far as political posturing goes, it can at least be argued, unlike say North Korea accusing South Korea is provoking them into taking violent action for every little thing) and it was territory that was Russian up until the Soviets handed it over. I'm sure a lot of Russians probably weren't and aren't happy about that. 

It would be kind of similar if Italy gave Sicily to Spain 60 years ago (let's just assume the European Union was structured in a similar manner to the USSR and the Eastern Bloc for a moment and existed, for that matter) and Italy moved troops to reclaim it if the ethnic Basque population started a widespread violent protests in Spain. Does that help put it into perspective? I'm not saying I agree with what Russia's doing and I dislike their government something fierce, but the point I'm making is that pulling the Ukraine card in Goldy's hypothesized Russian invasion of Canada is rather unwarranted for the example given. It's like comparing apples and depleted uranium rods.