As a natively Russian speaking Jew born in Crimea I really don't need any lectures on democracy from someone who ran away to Europe at the height of it's American enforced century of stability. My childhood was listening to stories from my great grandmother (born in Moldova) losing her entire childhood and several family members to European savagery. European so called Democracy isn't even one lifetime old. It's hilarious that you think Europeans have any moral high ground here whatsoever. It took the US to save Ukraine from the Russians and while the entire EU was waffling and talking about "escalation" we were actually doing something about it.