Sept. 20—There was more than a little outrage among the Western defenders of “democratic values,” over the decision of the Russian-speaking sections of Ukraine to hold a vote over staying with Ukraine or rejoining Russia. It has been no secret for the last eight years, since a coup in Kiev eliminated the government that they had voted for, that the peoples of South and Eastern Ukraine, by a large majority, resent what Kiev has been doing to them. So, “democratic values,” in the modern “rules-based order,” has a rather wide and flexible application. Today saw outbursts from the Kiev government, NATO, the Pentagon, the State Department and others.