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Russian Annexation of Crimea  

ExSASActionMan 53M
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5/26/2018 3:23 am
Russian Annexation of Crimea


Politicians cite it as an example of Russian aggression,but in order to mislead us leave out some important facts.Crimea &its naval base at Sevastopol has been Russian for several hundred years.Although Russia lost the Crimean War in 1856,the Allies allowed it to keep Crimea,which only became part of Ukraine due to a bureaucratic blunder by Khrushchev in the mid-1950s,when he transferred it to Ukraine without realising that Ukraine would one day be a separate country.After the breakup of the USSR in1991,Russia signed a treaty which allowed it to keep its naval base at Sevastopol &maintain a garrison there to protect it.The population is mainly of Russian descent.
Breaking a promise made to Gorbachev,Nato moved right up to the Russian border & the Russians began to get nervous about the safety of their naval base,especially as Ukraine looked as though it might soon become a member of Nato.After the Maidan coup in 2014 established a govt.unfriendly to Russia,a referendum on independence was held in Crimea,& the population voted overwhelmingly to break away from Ukraine.Another referendum held shortly afterwards asked whether Crimea should return to Russia.Again the vote was almost unanimously in favour.
Contrary to UK government propaganda,there was no invasion.With the approval of most Crimeans,the garrison allowed by treaty manned the border with Ukraine & Crimea returned to being what it always had been,a part of Russia. Politicians constantly complain about Russian aggression,but what about the needless bombing of Serbia in 1999 in which civilians were deliberately slaughtered,the unprovoked invasion of Iraq in 2003,the destruction of Libya in 2014,&our fanning the flames of war in Syria for the last 7yrs? Russian aggression is nothing compared to ours.

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