[Gunslingr3]

"Mr. Putin, give back Crimea," Cruz said at the Young America's Foundation in Washington. "Why is it so unimaginable for President Obama to utter those words?"

Because Crimea was part of Russia before California was part of the U.S.

The idea that border changes initiated by the Soviet Premier are something that the U.S. should go to the barricades for over 20 years after the Soviet Union disintegrated is laughable.

Cruz should know better, but this doesn't surprise me at all.

[1rudeboy]

Mexico was part of the U.S., when?

[DesertRhino]

“Because Crimea was part of Russia before California was part of the U.S.”

Hell, it was Russian before KENTUCKY was a state.

[GeronL]

Crimea is part of Ukraine now. This is not about the age of Charlemagne

[truth_seeker]

“The idea that border changes initiated by the Soviet Premier are something that the U.S. should go to the barricades for over 20 years after the Soviet Union disintegrated is laughable.”

Do you feel the same about Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Georgia, etc?

Some have joined NATO and some more were planning to. IOW they don’t want to be part of the “Soviet Union” any more now, than they did 70 years ago.