Posted on 03/18/2014 9:41:43 AM PDT by kronos77
Check and Mate.
“Check and Mate.”
On the contrary, this illegal act may result in Russia permanently losing any opportunity to possess the Crimea in the future, after Russia is forced to disgorge its illegal conquest. It may also mean anyone who voluntarily accepted Russian citizenship in the Crimea may one day find themselves no longer permitted to reside in a Crimea restored to Ukrainian control.
Russia is forced by whom or what?
“after Russia is forced to disgorge its illegal conquest.”
I’ll be sure to tell that to the Turkish Empire...
“I’ll be sure to tell that to the Turkish Empire...”
Please do so, because Turkey has recently responded to Russia’s apparent violation of the old treaty which gave Turkey certain first rights to regain sovereignty over the Crimea if and when the status of the Crimea were changed like the present circumstances.
And just who is gonna force Russia to back down. The paper tiger we have sitting in the White House.
Its over a huge portion of Crimea voted to become Russian. Russia accepted.
The Fat lady is singing.
Putin is licking his chops looking for more territory.
I will have to say do you really blame him.
Yes, just posted on it. This is just the beginning of the consequences for Russia. Russia will of course retaliate, but Russia would inevitably have done so anyway in one of the upcoming and inevitable confrontations over the other former Soviet Socialist Republics Putin seeks to reconquer.
Great, then NATO gets sucked into a war with the Russians for the frickin’ Turks.
I hope the Russkies march into Istanbul and rename it back to Constantinople.
It's an interesting thought exercise as to how you'd do that in the 21st century. No one has had to "break through" someone else's straights in forever.
It’s looking real stupid now.
And how do you propose to reverse it?
Some people have taken leave of their senses. This is a nuclear superpower. It can do what it wants on its own territory.
Deal with it.
“Russia permanently losing any opportunity to possess the Crimea in the future, after Russia is forced to disgorge its illegal conquest.”
Actually, it was taken from Russia so this is the return of Crimea to its rightful owner.
They stole it back.
Exactly.
Exactly.
“And how do you propose to reverse it?”
In the same ways in which the Soviet empire was reversed. Without the revenues from Gazprom and associated properties, Putin’s regime will dry up and be blown away by the Russian powerbrokers, and Putin knows it.
“Some people have taken leave of their senses.”
Yes, people like you and Putin who respect no boundaries and are willing to lie and obfuscate to evade accountability for the crimes of Putin’s regime.
“This is a nuclear superpower. It can do what it wants on its own territory.”
The Crimea, Ukraine, and other former Soviet Socialist Republics are not Russia’s territories. Putin’s Russian regime is flagrantly violating international law and committing crimes agaisnt humanity. Sooner or later putin and Russia will face an accounting for these criminal acts.
“Deal with it.”
It will be dealt with. Your disinformation will also be confronted.
Actually, it was taken from Russia so this is the return of Crimea to its rightful owner.
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Ukraine, with Crimea attached, became an independent nation a quarter of a century ago. What took your Russian friends so long to stake their claim?
That was a rhetorical question, BTW.
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