You are correct.
These people want to return, Russia wants them to return, the people voted to return, it is none of our damned business.
Crimean people are mostly ethnic Russians, for them its going home.
That’s false. Get your facts straight. For example, there are 266,000 Crimean Tartars. 99.99% of them will want nothing to do with the Russians.
If the “people want to return” there would be not need for a vote at the point of a gun barrel.
Russians have a long history of raping and murdering their neighbors. This is just the latest chapter. Glad to see you approve, FRiend.
No where did I say the Russians were could people
I stated what’s been reported
One of the huge problems - Western media (including European) are not reporting the facts - and many of those not-so-accurate facts are being posted here.
I know people living in Ukraine, with ties to Crimea. The entire blow-up in Ukraine stemmed from a set-up engineered by Putin. What began as a mostly legitimate protest of the President taking more power, and arbitrarily throwing a pro-West path out the door due to bribes and threats from Putin... was escalated by Putin and his plants (think of it like the far Left’s attempts to infiltrate and sully the TEA Party gatherings).
Yes, many ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking people in Crimea (a majority), but the majority do not necessarily want to return to Russia. Crimea has enjoyed semi-autonomy for some time now, and many there understand that the course they are on will strip them of any real autonomy. Just think about the copies of the ballot for the upcoming referendum... There is no “NO” on the ballot. It gives the choice of total withdrawal from Ukraine and immediate union with Russia or Withdraw from Ukraine, and join Russia later. They don’t even really offer the option of withdrawing and staying totally independent.