Which Empire?

Trying to pick the bad guy in the Ukraine incident should be easy, bearing in mind Putin is involved, but it isn't. Take the current flashpoint, Crimea. Lots of ethnic Russians live there and they are completely happy to 'rejoin' Russia rather than stay part of the Ukraine. So, a referendum is organised and it probably didn't even need to be rigged, 95% want to be with Mother Russia.

Surely, though, this still amounts to Russia interfering with the internal politics of another country, not least due to the military in and around the country? Undoubtedly, yes. But when we look at how this all came about we find that it was the EU attempting to sign up Ukraine to deals that are really the early stages of joining the EU and all is not so clear.

No referendum there and in fact a semi-violent overthrow of the existing regime to allow the EU to keep on track, absorbing the Ukraine into their empire. And I'm not sure that joining a completely undemocratic, command and control superstate is what the Ukrainians think the EU is about, (the EU are somewhat coy about mentioning it).

So rejoin the corrupt and flawed former Soviet Union state of Russia, or sign up with a proto-Soviet Union in the making, such is the choice facing the Ukraine.