Whoa, stop right there... What reason could there be to think that the constitution of the Ukraine means anything after the elected government of the Ukraine has been overthrown by a gang of Nazis??
... and promptly gave power to the same Rada that had been previously elected, and the Rada legitimized the revolution. It did not, however, abolish the Ukrainian Constitution.
a gang of Nazis
What reason could there be to think that someone unable to discuss things other than by throwing buzzwords around can be an interesting poster on a serious thread?
Lordy you are soooo ill informed
Pick up your phone Alex wants to chat
That’s actually quite funny, because the group didn’t claim to be NAZIs. The Russians claimed they were NAZIs, trained in Poland.
This goes back in the Russian Psyche to the days of the U. S. S. R., when Poland would not cower to it. Russian officials have never been able to shake that memory from their minds.
So today, the worst thing Russia can do when acting like a NAZI, is call others NAZIs, introduce that evil Poland into the mix, and invade a sovereign territory, and annex it.
Legal opinion? I hate to break it to you, but Conservative support for the U. S. Constitution is based on the legality of it, the precedence, and what it allows or doesn’t allow today.
Why would you not be interested in the legality of what Russia just did?
Which Ukrainian Constitution - the one of 2009 or the one of 2006?
If the Venice Commission means the later - no one voted to have it restored and the Crimean Supreme Council considered it illegitimate.
Which by the way, is nowhere adressed in the report.
Ukraine’s Constitution was completely upended in the coup....
Always when a proxy government is installed the first thing they do is attempt to write a new Constitution. Plus Ukraine’s made null and void former agreements with Russia already so what’s the purpose of this...stage posturing?
Putin’s taking over Crimea completely changed the face and behavior of how any will see International Law and as much behavior among nations. .....the “unviability of borders” just disappeared whether people like it or not.
As one stated in Brussels...”Putins moves on Crimea is a fundamental re-ordering of how life is going to be in Europe......The post-cold war ‘rules’ that began in 89’ ended in 2014.”
Perhaps they just need to feel like they’re doing something...too late unfortunately.....but “there’s no business as usual after a country has been annexed by another country..it’s a whole new ballgame!”