@oralloy,
Quote:Seriously a military bully, stealing territory from Georgia and the Ukraine.
Crimea had been part of Russia for several centuries when Nikita Khrushchev placed it under Ukrainian jurisdiction in 1954 as a bureaucratic simplifying measure; at that time it didn't really matter since everybody was citizens of the Soviet Union. After the breakup of the Soviet Union of course, it HAS mattered. Thus after Bork Obunga, the Hildeabeast, Victoria Nuland, and George Soros pulled one of their color revolutions and installed a Nazi government in Kiev, the people of Crimea voted something like 97% to first leave Ukraine with its Nazi government and then rejoin Russia.
Afterwards, when the Kiev Nazis attempted to isolate and starve Crimea out, Russians have built a colossal bridge to Crimea which has to rank as a wonder of the world and a Russian version of something like the Berlin airlift of the 1950s only, in this case, it was Western powers and their stooges who were the bad actors.
That is the real world version of the thing. The bullshit which Setenta and others here push is from some alternate universe in which facts do not matter.