They are angry because they failed.

Europe and the US are furious with Russia for sending troops into Ukraine. They had it all planned so well. In talks last November the EU offered a loan of 610 million Euros and IMF help, with all the painful adjustments that entails, for Ukraine to become an associate of the EU while Russia offered a $15 billion package including gas at attractive rates. The then President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych naturally opted for the Russian package. Also because he is ethnically Russian from the east of the country. Knowing that Russian reaction would be restrained because of the Winter Olympics at the end of January western countries instigated, supported and financed a violent protest movement against Yanukovych, hoping to overthrow him and install a puppet government in Kiev. Sadly for them he hung on till 2 days before the Olympics ended and then fled into Russia. They even tried to assassinate him but failed. Oleksandr Turchynov, the Speaker of the Parliament, who resembles Ernst Stavro Blofeld, was elected interim President. With the economy in such trouble that Ukraine is in danger of defaulting on its debts the first act of the new government was to ban Russian as the second language. This infuriated ethnic Russians and they protested, giving Russia the excuse to send troops into Crimea. Now the west is accusing Russia of breaking international treaties. In 2003 the then US Secretary of Colin Powell deliberately lied to the UN Security Council about WMDs possessed by Saddam Hussein. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died since then because of what the US did. In 2009 when Manuel Zelaya, President of Honduras was ousted in a coup for wanting to change the constitution, so that he could stand for a second term, Europe and the US severely condemned the coup. Obama urged officials in Honduras " to respect democratic norms, the rule of law and the tenets of Inter-American Democratic charter." Well, Yanukovych was the democratically elected President of Ukraine and he has asked for Russian help against the coup. If Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina and 7000 miles from Britain, can choose to stay British in a referendum surely Crimea should be given the same opportunity. Whatever the future, so far it seems that the west has lost this round. That is why they are furious. Hypocrites make poor losers.