I can understand having a contrary opinion; your opinion is perfectly valid. But how vehemently you're arguing your opinion, along with your long absence from posting, seems a bit suspicious to me.
I just gave you my twitter handle. There is a link to all my social media accounts. Not trying to hide. People like you are the reason the contrarian pragmatic class is already fed up with this hyve murica mentality.
even John Kerry already told Poroshenko to think twice.
Crimea was Russian and voted to join Russia. Illegal wars are what the US wages around the world. Russians are helping the insurgents unoficially because Nuland and that scumbag US ambassador placed a Nazi Junta in power.
1. Crimea was Ukrainian from 1954 until Russia's invasion.
2. The election held after Russia invaded was neither fair nor free. Non-citizens were allowed to vote and militias coerced voting.
It's not illegal to be gay in Russia. Although their gay law is backwards. It's a far cry from what you see in the Middle East. It looks more like what you see in Middle USA. Conservative, yes, oppressive and dangerous, not necessarily. Im for LGBT rights, but this topic is overblown.
I live in Texas, I am out and proud as a transgender lesbian, and I've never had any problems. It's not illegal to say it's OK to be gay anywhere in the US, but it is in Russia.
They may happen now in Russia-occupied and war-torn areas and boarding areas, but don't happen on the South that is controlled by government and where Russian-speaking and people of Russian ethnos also live.
Yet, at Donbass and Crimea Ukrainians and Crimean tatars are threatened.
So yes, there are ethnic tensions now, thanks to Russian govt.