No, I was simply mentioning that the Crimea has been Russian since 1783. It seems that little factoid is often left out of any conversation about Russia, the Ukraine and Crimea.
The thing is, when you look at Russian Federation, a very large part of it has not much to do with “proper” Russia, quite a few areas still have non-Russian majority, so according to this logic they have no historical claims to it... one day Russia will be torn into pieces and Crimea will be used as a justification. The borders does change over time, nearly every country have some sort of “historical claims” to regions, which are currently not within its borders.
Historically Texas was part of Mexico and Manhattan Island was native American land. Historically the whole world has changed hands and some group of people can claim any land they don’t currently have possession of, so what?
Here is a little factoid for you, Crimea was and is legally part of Ukraine and is recognized as such by every country in the world except Russia and a handful of states who parrot what the Kremlin wants them to. And you now sing the Kremlin’s parrot song just like them, same lyrics, same tune. Shite! Pure shite!
A sovereign nation was invaded and territory of that sovereign nation was seized, all your spinning does not change those big factoids!