(Zelensky Says Ukraine Is Preparing to Attack Crimea) He has to be talking through his hat. Russia no doubt has Crimea heavily fortified and defended with crack troops. Plus nuclear weapons. At least this article mentions that the people of Crimea are perfectly happy to be back in Russia. It's kind of the elephant in the room, how are the world's borders drawn? Badly in many cases, drawn up by foreign powers for imperial reasons, despite what the people living there have to say. The root cause of much of the planet's war and violence. [news.antiwar.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.If you believe the Crimea "elections" were fair and true and Ukrainian citizens in Crimea "are thrilled", it's only because that's what you want to believe.
barjoe
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Feb 28, 2023
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No, it's a fact. Crimea never wanted to be part of Ukraine in the first place. Russians live there, not Ukrainians.
@Druvius Tatars, Ukrainians and Russian speaking Ukrainians. The election was fraudulent. Obama looked the other way and let Putin cross the line in the sand in Crimea and Syria. Trump was even worse, acting on the orders and supporting the Russian tyrant. Biden has shown great courage by not doing that.
@Druvius So the Russian Federation on the orders of Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation, "with no concern for what the people living there wanted". Of course in your opinion, that's not Classic Imperialism. It sounds to me, when you speak about "how America hacked apart the Soviet Union" that you think Putin should go back to pre-1991 borders and revive USSR.
@barjoe No, Russia intervened in a Ukrainian Civil war, a war the US played no small part in starting in 2014. And the US is waging wars and violating sovereignty in numerous countries, this war was at least as justified as the US invasion of Iraq. There is no moral high ground here for the US, it's just another US proxy war. Over something that is about as irrelevant to US interests and security as it gets.
What bullshit. Crimea has belonged to many empires. For a while it was part of the Turkish empire when:-
"The Crimean Khanate became a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century, but also a power in its own right, claiming territory in what is today Russia's Caspian-Volga region."
Petter
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Feb 28, 2023
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Do you really think that Zelensky would tell everyone his plans in advance. He may not be the best commander in history, but even he would not be that stupid. Deliberate disinformation.
Fernapple
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Feb 28, 2023
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Seems that this site has more than a few technical issues, your reaction to my comment does not appear on the webpage.
It's not a matter of telling his plans in advance, it's his claiming he's going to do something that objectively is unlikely in the extreme. Not sure why he's doing this. Granted I'm not sure why he's insisting on fighting and expanding a war that is going very badly for his country.
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