“The people of Crimea flocked to the polls to vote to go back to being part of Russia.”
1. Those elections were fraudulent as they were not sanctioned by Ukraine. One day New Mexico and Texas can vote to go back to Mexico, but those elections would be invalid as well.
2. The Russians in Ukraine and Crimea were forcibly placed thee by the old Stalinist regime of the Soviet Union. They can now go back to Russia if they choose to.
3. Ukraine is none of Russia’s business. They are sovereign nation and can choose what they do and who they ally with.
4. Russia has guaranteed, by their expansionist policies, that Ukraine will choose the West and Nato.
EXACTLY. Those houses and apartments were given to top White Russian communist functionaries. Crimea was a desired posting, Ukraine less so but it beat the hell out of Kazakhstan or even Bulgaria. Gorbachev built his multi-million dollar dacha in Foros.
We're rewarding the Soviets for the same policy that Mexico and the 3rd wavers pendejos are trying to foist upon US, La Reconquista.