I am speechless; I can think of a dozen or so glib responses to put down this line of reasoning in a combative way.

I will do my best to go against that instinct and instead say;

1) I don't believe necessarily that Crimeans are "Russian"

2) I don't believe that we can talk about a countries people as being homogeneous.

3) I don't believe we should be deciding what liberty people should be entitled to, that feels decidedly totalitarian to me, it would be very easy to decide that you dear reader are not entitled to liberty either, since you implicitly support *gestures broadly*.

Sorry, I missunderstood your comment. I was reffering to russian russians but like you said, they are able to buy the game anyway.

Bit of a generalisation there, how many of us in the west were against and protested against the various wars we’ve been involved in and been basically just ignored because the government just does what it wants?

Not many but two wrongs don't make a right.

"The people" value different things depending on who they are. I'm sure you can find Russians who value liberty and peace, and I'm sure you can find Americans (or Germans, or Canadians, or Australian Aboriginals) who don't.

Yrs, there are russians that value liberty, I'm just dissapointed by how few there are.