sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
sycasey said:
Cal88 said:
I think the real war mongers are the one who started the war (Russia).
NATO chief confirms that the Ukraine war started in 2014:
Yes, when Russia annexed Crimea.
Russia annexed Crimea peacefully, through a referendum
No they didn't.
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According to the 2014 census by occupation authorities, 84% of Crimean inhabitants named Russian as their native language; 7.9% named Crimean Tatar; 3.7% Tatar and 3.3% Ukrainian.
The referendum came after Russian troops (originally denying they were Russian, but now it's pretty much admitted they were) seized a bunch of military and government buildings at gunpoint. No one got to vote on secession before the occupation had already started. That's not peaceful. A referendum vote held AFTER Russia already took over the territory cannot be considered valid or trustworthy.
I don't care about what language people speak or what random people on the street say, that doesn't prove anything about a legitimate process.
That is the problem, your take is very naive and misinformed, largely based on negative stereotypes about Russians.
You never address basic facts like
- the several independent polls confirming the overwhelming support of Crimeans for Russia
- the fact that they're overwhelmingly ethnically Russian and russophones, and that Crimea has been Russian since the 1700s
- Crimea has been thriving economically since joining Russia, especially after the Russian army restored the water canal that was previously diverted into the sea by the Kiev regime out of pure spite.
- Crimea was never occupied, because most of the Ukrainian garrison stationed there in 2014 were locals who switched allegiance.
You also have no idea about what really went on in other parts of eastern and southern Ukraine, the burning alive of nearly 50 local unarmed pro-Russia protestors in Odessa in May of 2014, the Kiev regime sending its tanks and air force to quash locals in Mariupol, the indiscriminate bombing of the largest city in the Donbas, Donetsk, which went on for nearly 10 years.
You're just as oblivious to all of these facts as you are to the horrendous daily forced conscription of Urkainian middle aged men, as if this was a normal wartime thing.