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Originally Posted by ResAlien
Hopefully this goes better than the illegal annexation of Crimea by the russians. Seems they walked away from that with a slap on the wrist and that’s all.
No need for war but I’m assuming the economic sanctions will hit them harder. They’ve got germany in their pocket what with the ability to shut off Germany’s gas if they upset them but I believe the rest of Europe isn’t quite as beholden to russian whims
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I never supported annexation of Crimea. In fact, I was and still am against it, and frankly owning the Crimea for 8 years seems to give us far less that the sanctions took away. That being said, the Russian argument for it was the following:
If a country joins a union and then leaves the union, it should leave with the same lands it has had when joined.
Ukraine didn't have Crimea when it joined USSR. In fact, Crimea was part of Russia. Crimea was handed over from Russia to Ukraine when both were in USSR by Ukrainian-born leader of USSR. It was never a will of people or anything. So when Ukraine voted to leave USSR and become independent, it should have left the Union with the same lands it joined, that is without Crimea. Or so Russia believes, rightly or wrongly