That's hilarious.
That's hilarious.
So who is succeeding whom?
The Succession Secession
I sure hope it's secessful.
You are all awful. Every last one of you.
Pretty much happening. I am hearing that the vote was 93% in favor of joining Russia.
I don't wont any part of Ukraine to be annexed, but it seems that Crimea has completely given up, probably because voting against it will do no good. Russia has proven they are willing to take the country through brute force. I don't like the whole situation, none of this was Putin's business. Ukraine started having issues, and he saw it as an excuse to invade. From a strategic side, it's smart, but only if the two were actually warring enemies(like Taiwan and China for instance, or NK and SK). From a political side, this is dumb and it will hurt him in the future.
But I'll add I don't have complete understanding of the situation. It is mostly based on pure emotion.
Ukraine messed up, when Putin said there were no Russian troops in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military should've been like "oh cool you won't mind if we kill these dudes then"
I was under the impression Ukraine's military wasn't capable of killing those dudes.
ineptitude aside (and the Ukrainian military is indeed hopeless) their leadership probably remembers what happened when Georgia killed Russian soldiers, uniforms or no
Texas voted to join Mexico.
It's the old, transfer your own people into a different country and have them outbreed the locals until they can call for a vote for annexation trick. Worked wonderfully in Hawaii too.
Either way had Ukrainian forces attacked the Crimean forces, Russia would have claimed that the fighting put the Russian civilians in Crimea in danger and used that as an excuse to send full troops in/officially mobilize Black Sea Fleet.
Send Russian troops to protect Russian civilians from Russian soldiers?
Ukraine needed to be a little more bold. If they were just gonna sit back and let their land be taken, then just do it or sell it. They literally did nothing and lost everything.
They didn't exactly have options there, don't forget that they don't exactly have resources at the moment. The pro-Russian people in Crimea basically refused to acknowledge the Kiev government so diplomacy was out, they couldn't do anything militarily because they'd risk either a civil war or Russia stepping in.
The one thing I was wondering if they could do is threaten to deport all Russian-born citizens to Russia.