The new "government" of Ukraine after the former government was ousted is lead by an extremist group of Fascist Neo-[url=http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law]-godwinslaw!-[/url] called Svoboda. The US government staged a coup and poured money into the group because they thought they could control them and make them join the EU, but John McCain wants to go to war with Russia. The US government has no control over Svoboda and the group's leaders have stated many times that they despise Jews, Russians, and others, so they will not give up Crimea to the Russians. The US government has also announced that they will not honor the referendum if Crimea votes to secede on March 16th, just as how the Russian government will not recognize the new Ukranian "government" because their uprising was state sponsored terrorism by America. Basically the whole situation is a fu­cking mess created by incompetent governments.

Pretty much, if the crimean referendum shows a lot of support for joining russia then let them. Self Determination is important, if they want to join then nobody should stop them. It's especially not worth fighting a war over.

Russia only wants Crimea so that they'll have direct access to the Black Sea.

Why would the Ukrainians want to give a large amount of land filled with valuable resources? Economically that makes no sense, it's political suicide and is practically impossible to implement anyway.

The US has to focus on its own needs before it helps others.

[quote]Give Russia Crimea in exchange for recognition of Ukrainian sovereignty and allow anyone who wants to move between regions the time to make the journey with no repercussions for their allegiance.[/quote] 1994 Russia already agreed to a 'sovereign Ukraine' in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nuclear armaments after the collapse of the Soviet Union. So clearly that doesn't work.