If Russia's claim to Crimea legitamate?

[Torie]

It's always difficult when a minority that is a majority in a part of one nation, wants to join an adjacent nation. Russia precipitated it, but a majority of the populace was no doubt more than happy to go along. Now the issue is what happens to eastern Ukraine with the same issue. Not to make a comparison, but that is the tactic Hitler used to annex the Sudentenland. He was just picking up Germans that were a majority in that part of Czechoslovakia (I think they were a majority, but perhaps not).