chemTrailActivist · @chemTrailActivi
21st Apr 2014 from TwitLonger
#ukraine #russia #NATO #Донецк #Харьков #Donetsk #Kharkiv #RussianSpring
Manuel Ochsenreiter, Editor-in-Chief for the Zuerst monthly magazine in Germany
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Robles: I see.
Well, I understand that, a lot of the international observers who was supposed to come or asked to come, like the OSE from the outset they refused to send observers because and they said this before it happened "that will grant the process legitimacy".
So from the very beginning they were not interested whether it was legitimate or not, they had already decided it was illegitimate.
Ochsenreiter: Exactly. And we should always say that when it comes to geopolitics it is not about equal standards.
We should get used to the fact that the West, the EU the NATO, the US use their own standards and they are not willing to share those standards with others.
So, I told you I was there with my Russian friend on Crimea.
It was sometimes a very little funny situation because we were walking around there and a lot of western media teams were there and they were asking my Russian friend, they were interviewing him, what he thinks and they all asked him the same questions, they were asking him how he sees the fact that the West declares that referendum not as a legal referendum.
And at the first my friend was trying to answer those questions in a serious way but later on he had to laugh because we were surrounded by happy people with Russian flags.
The whole Crimea was celebrating, it was a little bit like Germany on November, 9th, 1989 when the Wall came down: these people were celebrating actually reunification.
It was hard to find anybody on Crimea who was against becoming Russian.
So, when you are here and you say:
"Well, now tell me something about law and legitimacy and how it should be organized",
the people want that and there is such a basic democratic act like asking the people what the West never would dare to do.
The West for example I'm coming from Germany,
I never had the right to participate at any referendum about the decisive political project,
I wasn't asked if I want to send soldiers to Afghanistan,
I was never asked if I still want to be member of the NATO,
I'm not asked if I wanted to have the EURO currency,
I'm even not asked if I want to bail out Ukraine.
http://voiceofrussia.com/2014_04_21/Crimea-No-Russian-invasion-happy-people-Manuel-Ochsenreiter-9307/