etaepsilonk wrote: sepheronx wrote:
The will of the people spoke. And it is their will that keeps it within the country, much like even the more troubled spots in Russia. Unless someone went to war over it (happened before and in the end, neither England nor Ottomans succeeded), how do you expect it to go back? There is a clear difference between territory that belongs to someone by ethnicity and claim (while having popular support) vs a madman that conquered nations and cooked a bunch of people.
And only two people replied to your comment and didn't go all nationalistic or pro Putin or anything. So you are just hurting your own credibility.
A madman who conquered nations and cooked a bunch of people justified his actions by claiming that all of that belonged to his nation at one point or another anyway, it was only taken away by the criminal schemes of people wishing misfortune to them.
It's quite worrying how history tends to repeat itself. You know, with all the people here claiming ukraine as a fake country 'n stuff...
Yes and meanwhile Europe colonized and enslaved the rest of the world; and they weren't madmen for that - while Hitler was; primarily because he conquered and enslaved Europeans and not blacks/browns/yellows/etc... lets be honest.
I don't see what Hitler has to do with this discussion.
Russia made a mistake annexing the Crimea; but it's hardly unprecedented. And you would have to be a blind man to fail how to see how this relates to the US/EU overthrow of the Ukrainian government.
It's very simple really. I'll spell it out for you. Russia is not a nice nation. As all big strong nations - it's an imperialist power, just not an aggressive one. It is however territorial, and it will act preemptively, and small nations and people will suffer.
It acted preemptively in WW2; annexed the Baltic States, Eastern Poland, and attacked Finland - all in order to create buffers and secure its borders. And we had to deal with a whole load of butthurt for that and still do; although most of it is warranted.
The Crimea was something similar - once again we have an aggressive, expansionist bloc expanding to our borders and its not interested in compromising with us or working out any sorts of deals, or a new security architecture in Europe that will lay everyone's fears to rest. It is openly hostile ideologically, and has attempted to overthrow the Russian government in 2012. I lived in the West. There is a vast array of propaganda there directed against Russia, and not just against Russia, but against Russian society, the Russian language, and other things. Everything Russian is treated with suspicion, especially now.
However in the Crimea's case - unlike with the USSR in 1939-1940, and unlike with Hitler 1938-1941 - the vast, vast, vast majority of the population there - welcomed annexation by Russia. And I call that an improvement, over previous ideas. Really, they were already in the process of rebelling, and something had to be done - perhaps not annexation, but something. So quit your aching.