And it wasn’t sovereign Russian territory in 1992.
But what’s your point? That historical precedence justifies present day aggression? Do you agree with Aztlan that the American Southwest should return to Mexico? Would you support a Mexican invasion of Texas?
Why, if your arugument is valid shouldn't various of our sovereign state break off and join Canada or Mexico, or say form, with a breakaway sovereign federal state of Canada, the North America Winterland Paradise.