I believe I alluded to this in my previous email although you deleted it in your reply. The point is they *are* Russian citizens, for whatever reason. That is not the case in your US/Haiti/Guatemala analogy.
> More generally, I'm not
> all that comfortable with states' having the right to/should
> do something because "their" citizens (are alleged to) want
> that.
But we're not talking about them having a blanket right to do something just because their citizens want it. We're talking about them having a right to intervene when their citizens are being slaughtered. That seems to me to be a pretty basic obligation on the part of any state, to try to prevent its citizens being slaughtered.
I think we can take it as more than an "allegation" that most people facing slaughter would want their state to try to prevent it.