Yulia
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Yes. Crimea is a mess because on one hand it seems Kruschev just arbitrarily moved it from Russia to Ukraine at a time it had a Russian majority population, but on the other hand he (and his successors) reportedly parachuted in lots of Russians to settle in Crimea (and in Baltic states) to make the USSR more secure. Plus the destruction of some 1500+ nukes by Ukraine at the fall of the USSR was conditional on Russia recognising Ukrainian boundaries as per the Budapest memorandum signed by Russia. So on balance, I think Russia should have at the very least offered 1,500 nukes from its collection to Ukraine in return for reclaiming Crimea.
But yes, not a clear one. Neither is Abkhazia, that definitely also had two sides to the coin as the Georgian leader at the time lacked any sort of wisdom and an EU report even concluded Georgia contributed to the conflict.
Donbas I consider a travesty I cannot justify and if anything further happens in Bosnia to try and destroy its existence that would also be hard to justify compared to making efforts to get along. Conflict destroys lives and economies and having military outposts and a large military costs a fortune that can be spent on your people to improve their lives. The reasons we fight now globally are every bit as trivial and idiotic as they were in the 19th and early 20th century.
Hopefully peace will win out under our new Orangutan overlords.
I agree with you, surprisingly although I have a couple of acquaintances from Donetsk and even they have opposite views on what's going on..but Russia shouldn't have put its' hands there,nor in Crimea, that's my opinion. I understand geopolitical reasons,but that was morally wrong.. I'm glad for Crimeans though, they have a better "quality of life" now and I can understand them.
What do you think about Belarusian situation and about what's going on in Kazakhstan?