Granted Rakshasa that no two events can be carbon copies of each other, but the underlying fact of a larger neighbour annexing a portion of its smaller neighbour's territory to obstensibly 'protect' a portion of that smaller country's population that has ethnic/religious/language ties to it strike me as somewhat similar, no?.
And I agree rh200, I'd have hoped 21st century Europe had moved on from this.
Some great Tweets from Putin today I see: