“. . . you don’t know how lucky you are, boy . . .”
I cannot help but ask a question — what if in the future, the vast majority of a California city decide to join Mexico? Will the USA let it?
The tribe has spoken.
What are the ODDS that Russias media is as controlled as our own?.. (or more)
Meaning polls will say whatever the oligarchs want it to say..
You know............................. like ours..
“Unexpected?”
I’ve heard that Crimea has also voted to change their name to “East Kosovo.”
Too bad they did so poorly compared to the precincts in America that voted 100% for Obama in 2012.
It was not 183%? Man, the Russian propaganda machine is not what it used to be. They should call our LSM for some refresher courses...
Mmmmhmmm. And any believers of that poll ... wanna buy a bridge?
The Tatars boycotted.
Those reports prove the election was massively rigged by Putin’s Russian regime, because the demographics alone make such an election result quite impossible. The Ukrainians make up something on the order of more than 25 percent of the population and the Crimean Tatars more than 12 percent of the population. The ethnic Russians are fewer than 58 percent of the population. Many ethnic Russians in the Crimea were loyal to the Ukraine and wanted to have nothing to do with Putin’s autocratic Russian government. At the very most a fair election result would have seen no more than a 45 percent vote in favor of annexing to Russia, and a far more likely result would have been around 9 to 12 percent in favor of Russian annexation.
Another way of knowing with absolute certainty the voting was rigged and fraudulent is by looking at the ballots. The ballots presented the voter with only two choices. One choice was for the Crimea to declare independence from the Ukraine. The other choice was for the Crimea to declare independence from the Ukraine and request Russian to annex the Crimea to Russia. The faked vote chose to become annexed to Russia. Nowhere on the ballot was there any option to vote in favor of remaining the territory of the Ukraine.
So 93% voted to seceded from Ukraine and the other 7% voted to secede from Ukraine.
No option for ‘Russia go home’.
I surely would not trust those ballot Boxes.