[Jim Noble]

Actually, it would be the same if it were Austria that invaded Czechoslovakia.

Imagine some geopolitical earthquake whereby Mexico got NM, AZ, and CA back.

Twenty years later, fortunes shift and we have a chance to take them back. We would do it, wouldn’t we?

[holden]

Wikipedia: : On 19 February 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree on the transfer of the Crimean region of the RSFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. This Supreme Soviet Decree states that this transfer was motivated by "the commonality of the economy, the proximity, and close economic and cultural relations between the Crimean region and the Ukrainian SSR".

Jim Noble: Twenty years, fortunes shift and we have a chance to take them back. We would do it wouldn't we?

So, good morals should be copacetic with opportunistic, two-faced "Indian giving?"

HF