Had to turn the heat on this morning...
@2Glocks - to make matters worse Russia is about to take over Ukraine. No telling what flex China is going to do.
Depends if Ukraine decides to take back the eastern parts by force. If they would guarantee semi-autonomy and stop de-Russonization, conflict would stop.
Crimea will never be Ukranian. It was Russian since Peter the Great took it from the Ottoman empire. It was Ukranian for a grand total of 50 years, after Khruschev, a Ukranian, gifted it to Ukranian SSR and took it out of RSFSR. He had no authority to do so.
I was in Crimea in the 1980s. Ukranian was not spoken. Period. It was all Russian population.
New Ukranian govt decided to terminate Russsia's lease of the Naval base in Sevastopol (Russian base going back to Peter's time). It is the main Black Sea base. Secondary base used to be in Odessa, now Ukraine, and Russia had given up that one. Was not gonna happen.
I have family in both Ukraine and Russia, and Ukraine bluffed and lost.
Had good friends (retired couple) stuck in Kiev during the last Soros fermented Orange revolution. They barely escaped to Russia. Left literally everything behind. They were Ukranian death squads looking for Russians in Kiev.
I understand why Novo-Russia and Donbass are fighting.
