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Elizabeth Cluppins
May 12, 2009

Mr. Smile Face Hat posted:

And this was not the excuse to hold a totally free referendum in Crimea, facilitated by benign forces?

The security benefits don't justify institutional racism and a society perpetually split across ethnic lines.

I see no reason to believe that being harsher against their Russian population would have saved Ukraine from what happened in 2014. Unlawful occupation finds a way.

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Elizabeth Cluppins
May 12, 2009
If the international response and foreign military aid doesn't die down, I expect that Russia might claim that the military buildup was just a very realistic military exercise.

Ukraine gets to stay only partially occupied, Russia gets to claim unjustified European aggression and mock the recent military aid for internal propaganda purposes.

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