After years of failed and weakened Western leadership that opened the door for such a move to be possible, it's nice to finally see a clear, morally unequivocal statement on the matter. As a historian, I believe we are only getting started on unpacking its significance.
The Crimea was a part of Russia since 1783. Then in 1954 the Soviets transferred it to the Ukraine for purely political reasons. And something like 65% of Crimeans are Russian.
(Yes, the Russian bear needs to be challenged. But the Crimea is not the place for the US to make a moral argument.)
Crimea voted like 90-10 to peacefully leave Ukraine and join Russia.
Now lets talk ripping Kosovo from Serbia you @ss clown.
Whatever. The issue isn’t worth a single drop of American blood or one thin dime of America treasure.
Not one.
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He’s a dumbass from Kansas on at least two things I can see in there. One, I would argue that Russia did not attempt to annex Crimea. It seems as though they accomplished it. Two, he says borders cannot be changed by force. Ukraine had a coup that did exactly that. When you seize a government by force, you do not automatically inherit everything the government you killed used to own. You only have a right to rule what you can defend by force. If some bunch of radical pussyhat him antifa types managed to seize DC, Texas would not be obligated to acquiesce that this is the new government because they happen to lie within the borders of the old USA. The minute the coup killed the Ukrainian government everybody has the same right to grab what they can as the coup leadership did.
For extra credit: in the middle of the 1800s can Pompeo tell us Who the British Invaders were fighting against in Crimea, during the famous Charge of the Light Brigade? Who was the enemy in Crimea the Brits were trying to eject, Pompeo? The neocons have this delusional fantasy that Sevastopol was going to become a NATO navy base. We would probably giveaway Norfolk Virginia about as soon as the Russians would do that.
“sought to undermine a bedrock international principle shared by democratic states: that no country can change the borders of another by force.”
And no doubt, Pompeo said this without the slightest sense of irony.
Excellent. Thank you.
All Russian hating neocons...please report for duty on the Eastern front.
Sorry, no deferrments...
The Serbs, et. al., will be glad to hear that.
You know as well as I do that, for all intents and purposes, the topic of Crimea is *closed*. It is *never* going back to Ukraine.