First, allow me to address the bad-faith re-interpretation of my post. Where, exactly, do I claim it is US's fault?

I said the decision has had clear strategic consequence that effectively makes you think of WW2 and you have to wilfully not want to see them to claim otherwise.

I get that some people think history started yesterday. It did not.

Eh, and that is before we get to the more amusing part that include vagaries of international law. I don't want to sound too cynical, but annexation is apparently only wrong when done by Russia[1]. I guess it all depends on who is doing the annexing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation