Patrick J. Buchanan. (№ 351866)

If Ukraine in 1991 had the right to secede from Russia, why Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk do not have the right to secede from Kiev? Why do we allow ourselves to be drawn into other people's conflicts, starting with the question of who owns the Islands in the South China sea, who should own the Senkaku Islands and the South Kuril Islands, to the question of whether Transnistria's right to secede from Moldova, and South Ossetia and Abkhazia from Georgia, if Georgia seceded from Russia?