Now let’s have the vote without Russian troops in the country.
I don’t understand why some FReepers think this is legitimate. It’s like selling your house to a “buyer” who breaks in with armed thugs. “You want to sign, yes?”
I don’t understand why some FReepers think this is legitimate. It’s like selling your house to a “buyer” who breaks in with armed thugs. “You want to sign, yes?”
It’s disgusting moral relativism. A pack of rabid Paulistians on the loose. They are certainly not conservatives.
It probably wouldn’t go 95.5% for unification but unification would still win running away. Crimea was “given” to the Ukrainian SSR in 1954 after Josef Stalin’s death (why, I’m not sure) and came with Ukraine when the Soviet Union fell apart in 1991. But before that, if I remember right, it was part of the Russian RSFSR and part of the Russian Empire long before 1917, settled by Russians when the Tatars were driven out.
The result is not entirely illegitimate, Crimea should have probably been allowed to seek unification with Russia. Now the way that Putin went about it? Very reminiscent of a couple of maneuvers pulled in 1938 by a dude with a toothbrush mustache and bad hair. The ends don’t justify the means even if the ends are, in the long run, probably the right ones.
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