“In the past Los Angeles belonged to Mexico.”
And then we took it, along with the entire southwest, fair and square. Then plowed trillions in investment over 150-200 years and made it ours permanently.
Not unlike what Russia did with Ukraine.
Russia has at least 1/2 million men buried in Sevastopol.
Catherine the Great turned a swamp on the Black Sea into Odessa, one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
Eastern Ukraine was nothing but nomadic sheepherders, with no law even to partition the land. And Russia turned it into an industrial powerhouse.
As far as I can discern, it’s theirs. Lock, stock, and barrel.
And the West Ukraine was Poland only seven decades ago.
Much of the U.S. Midwest belonged to the French.