In the past, Russia has always taken any action required when it believes its survival is at stake. Including in Crimea.
Crimea is in no way analogous to Soviet forays in Afghanistan. Potentially it is a new Saint Petersburg.
And we have known this for sixty years.
“In the past, Russia has always taken any action required when it believes its survival is at stake. Including in Crimea.”
So did Germany, and we all saw how that worked out for them. Russia’s criminal actions are what threatens Russia’s survival, and not the status of the Crimea. Russia can survive quite well without the Crimea, especially when it stops threatening its neighbors with criminal invasions and conquests.
“Crimea is in no way analogous to Soviet forays in Afghanistan. Potentially it is a new Saint Petersburg.”
At the rate Putin is going, the old St. Petersburg is liable to end up in a foreign separatist state of expatriate Russians who want nothing further to do with aggressive totalitarian Kremlin leaderships.
“And we have known this for sixty years.”
We’ve also known how North Korea’s criminal leadership has wanted to conquer and despoil South Korea for sixty years, and Russia’s criminal conduct threatening conquests is no more acceptable in moral, legal, or actual terms than the North Korean criminal behavior.