Crimea’s history now....it’s gone and no amount of complaining is going to return it to Ukraine..Not going to happen.... The only people keeping that ‘story’ alive otherwise are those using it for political leverage well knowing it’s gone.. period.
Furthermore identity has nothing to do with the land mass....which is what this is really about.....the Tatars were deported and sent away in 1944 and they will always try and reclaim Crimea as their’s....it will never happen either. They’re muslim and they carry the same old age claims on land the rest do to this day...it’s they’re nature.
I think Ukraine is better off without Crimea.
But I am against the *spirit* in which the annexation was done. There was a palpable sense of vengefulness among the average (non-political) people of Russia over the whole thing...they figured the land-grab entitled them to the stature of Cold War times.
(During which the USSR was overestimated was plenty to begin with.)
And the current situation in Donetsk/Luhansk/Donbass (East Ukraine) is shameful. CLearly this was more than just about getting Crimea tacked back onto the Russian map. (Which I have since learned, North Korea haa already edited their maps for schools and things to acknowledge the change.)
Gotta look out for your friends.