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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Military action would be suicidal. Have we forgotten how two world wars started?
This problem is, as so many others are, a result of arbitrary settings of borders with no account of the ethnicity or tribal (Africa) affiliations.
Crimea had always been Russian until Khrushchev gifted it to the Ukraine.
The referendum in the Crimea was about as legal as the current government in Kiev. For one to declare the other "illegal" is laughable. Even more stupid for the West to back a regime that ousted a legally elected president in what was effectively a coup-d'tat.
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Only within the context of Putin's extemely selective, historic references. Even the name "Crimea" is not remotely Slavic in origin, it's a Turkic name derivation synonymous with the native Tatars. Not an excuse for violation of international law.