True of the American West too, but we ain’t giving it back either.
History ain’t always pretty, but the Russians have claimed Crimea (annexed 1783) for longer than we’ve claimed California (annexed 1847).
The neocon clowns that plotted with neo-nazis to overthrow Ukraine’s government in favor of hand picked stooges can tantrum all they want, the Russians own Crimea and aren’t giving it away.
We are talking about deportation and mass murder in our lifetime. Given Putin’s threats and mass murder there is a strong case to be made for deporting all ethnic Russians from former Soviet states back to Russia. They simply are not worth the potential problems with a malignant force like Putinist Russia making threats.
No, we are not.
90 year ago there were TWICE as many Russians as Tatars in Crimea, and the Ukrainian population has always been smaller than the Russian.
It's Russian. Sorry. It was that way long before you were born. Long before Americans decided to conquer the West and carry out the necessary deportations and mass murder to effect that conquest. History is sometimes brutal, but it is important to remember it is also real.