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You can be trusted to wage war, at least.

The victory — which you earlier renounced as hollow and worthless — increases the trust, you'll win too.

This encourages your friends to invest in defenses against you specifically.

Except, it does not happen. To a fault — for many years many European countries did not invest in their defenses, counting on the US to help them. You may have heard about it from the press criticizing Trump for "endangering NATO". For example, France, Germany, and Czechia have fewer tanks (combined!) than the Russia-supplied separatists in Eastern Ukraine... For another example, Germany's entire submarine fleet (6 ships) was grounded last year.

Israel — another friend — does keep their defenses top notch, but not against the US. China and Russia also try to improve their militaries, but they aren't — and never have been — our friends.

Why would you even post such bullshit to begin with?..

As for Crimea, it was the people who were living in Crimea

Crimeans didn't decide anything. In spite of overwhelming Russian propaganda, polls before Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea showed that Crimeans preferred to stay with Ukraine. First of all, Russia's referendum pantomime was done in breach of numerous international laws, norms, and treaties, and under Russian military occupation. Second, the referendum did not have a "status quo" option. Third, as the Kremlin's Human Rights Council confirmed that the Crimea "referendum" results were totally fabricated. Russia took away Crimeans' ability to determine their own fate.

the anti-Russia government that took power in Ukraine after the coup?

When a certain country attacks you, you tend to become anti- that country. But let's get the chronology straight - Russia started its Crimea invasion in early February 2014, while Yanukovych was still in office. One of the Russian officers coordinating the Crimea invasion, was Igor Girkin, who immediately went on to lead Russia's invasion of Ukraine's Donbas region. So your rationalization of Russia's Crimea invasion is absurd.

so anti-Russians it even tried to forbid the Russian language.

That's a flat out lie. A motion was proposed in the Rada to take away the privileged status of the Russian language, but Ukraine's acting president, Turchynov, said that he wold veto any such proposal, and that was the end of it. How dumb do you have to be to believe that a country could "forbid" a language that's spoken by the majority of that country?

can you explain to me why the US government immediately accepted the result of the coup instead of demanding the respect of democracy

As mentioned above, Yanukovych tried to subvert democracy in Ukraine - he would've turned Ukraine into a Russia-style dictatorship. The revolution ensured that democracy was not thwarted. After three months of Turchynov's provisional government, Poroshenko was elected in accordance with Ukrainian law.

Considering the difference of military power, if one day Russia decided to invade Ukraine, it would be even easier for them than when the US invaded Iraq.

More Russian propaganda. Here's a translation of a Novaya Gazeta article, in which a Buryat (Russian Mongol) soldier openly talks about his tank unit invading Donbas. Since the article has been published, his mother has been complaining that the Russian military refuses to give him his military pension or to provide other services due to him as an injured soldier. Ukrainian POW Savchenko was traded to Russia for two Spetsnaz who were captured in Donbas. Just yesterday, a Russian soldier was captured in East Ukraine. You can download the Nemtsov Report, which Boris Nemtsov was compiling before the Kremlin's lackeys murdered him -

And yet there is no insurgency in Crimea

It's a side effect of the fact that discontented people in Crimea have a habit of disappearing, with the help of the FSB. Since the Russian occupation, Crimea has become by far, the most repressive place in Europe.

Crimeans all happily took Russian passports.

Crimean Resistance to Giving Up Ukrainian Citizenship Seen Forcing Moscow to Make Concessions Russia repeatedly had to move back the date by which residents had to take Russian passports, because so many residents were refusing to take them. People finally started taking Russian passports to avoid being harassed by the Russian occupant authorities, and in order to avoid being denied social services.

. Zero people died taking Crimea.

False

Sounds like a textbook occupation to me

Which is why the international community recognizes it as such: http://euromaidanpress.com/201....

Crimea is...

UN committee adopts resolution recognizing Russia as occupying power in Crimea

A couple of days ago, the world codified the fact that Russia has invaded Crimea, and have all of the legal obligations of an occupying force. You've already taken the Sudetenland, When are you guys going for Poland?

You do realize that if Russia invaded Ukraine it would be Georgia all over again

Well, let's see - Putin already admitted to invading Crimea, so you must be talking about the Donbas. Here's an active duty Russian (Buryat) soldier talking about how he and his tank battalion invaded Ukraine, where he sustained horrific injuries. He was telling his story openly in the Russian papers; afterwards, his mom started complaining that the Russian military is refusing to provide his family with benefits. Here's VICE tracking down another active duty Ukraine invader, in Russia. Here's the download link for the Nemtsov report, detailing loads of evidence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, up to early 2015 (when Nemtsov was murdered right in front of the Kremlin): http://4freerussia.org/putin.w...

Russia is a nation with one of the most advanced and active space programs

Read up on the dependence of Russian aviation, space, and military companies on Ukrainian parts (incidentally, the top people in the Soviet space program were Ukrainian). That's one of the reasons that Russia invaded Ukraine - they've been disassembling defense factories in Lugansk and Donetsk, and shipping them back to Russia.

You do realize that if Russia invaded Ukraine it would be Georgia all over again

Well, let's see - Putin already admitted to invading Crimea, so you must be talking about the Donbas. Here's an active duty Russian (Buryat) soldier talking about how he and his tank battalion invaded Ukraine, where he sustained horrific injuries. He was telling his story openly in the Russian papers; afterwards, his mom started complaining that the Russian military is refusing to provide his family with benefits. Here's VICE tracking down another active duty Ukraine invader, in Russia. Here's the download link for the Nemtsov report, detailing loads of evidence of Russian soldiers in Ukraine, up to early 2015 (when Nemtsov was murdered right in front of the Kremlin): http://4freerussia.org/putin.w...

Russia is a nation with one of the most advanced and active space programs

Read up on the dependence of Russian aviation, space, and military companies on Ukrainian parts (incidentally, the top people in the Soviet space program were Ukrainian). That's one of the reasons that Russia invaded Ukraine - they've been disassembling defense factories in Lugansk and Donetsk, and shipping them back to Russia.

The fact that the taking over the rest of Ukraine was never the point. That's who.

Intercepts of Putin's advisor Glazyev were released, in which he was coordinating "separatist" movements all over Southern and Eastern Ukraine. At the time, Russian propaganda kept touting the notion of a Novorossiya (consisting of Southern and Eastern Ukraine) joining Russia. The Ukrainian army and volunteers, fought back Russia to Donetsk and Lugansk city limits, until Russia retaliated with a massive counteroffensive. In other words, stop digging yourself deeper into a hole.

The problem is that the Ukrainian government does not recognize an individual's God-given right of freedom of speech, freedom to peaceably assemble, fredom of religion

What are you talking about? Perhaps you're thinking of Russia? Ukraine's Jewish Prime Minister and Muslim MP Dzhemilev, disagree with your freedom of religion nonsense. Ukraine has the most free Russian language press in the world - probably too free for Ukraine's own good, since it has provided a vehicle for Russia's war propaganda. Since Yanukovych's "Dictatorship Laws" were overturned by Ukraine's revolution, Ukrainians can assemble as they like.

A Russian disinformation campaign has already been in full swing in Germany for over a year.

Funny. I live in Germany. Show me this information war, because I don't see any sign of it.

OK. Look here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/29/world/europe/russia-sweden-disinformation.htm

A Russian disinformation campaign has already been in full swing in Germany for over a year. Russia has identified Germany as the key player in European politics and foreign policy and Russian internet trolls are flooding the comment sections of German news sites with pro-Russian propaganda while trying to sow distrust in German institutions, the government and mainstream German media.

That's well documented.

  http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/08/the-kremlins-troll-army/375932/

or here http://euromaidanpress.com/201...

or here http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05...