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NATO would never use military force to fix stuff, right?
by unlinker 10y ago
NATO would never use military force to fix stuff, right?
- krzyk 10y agoTo annex part of a country? I don't remember.
- pandaman 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Declaration_of_independence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosovo#Declaration_of_independ...
- krzyk 10y agoIt didn't annex it, they created a country out of it. And it still is a country. Can you say the same about Crimea?
- pandaman 10y agoHow could they create a country out of a part of another country without an annexation taking place first? Or, are you going to argue, that Russia did not annex Transistria and South Othetia because a country was created?
- vetinari 10y agoKosovo?
- avmich 10y agoAnnexation? http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annex http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/annex Simple Definition of annex : to add (an area or region) to a country, state, etc. : to take control of (a territory or place) There is a big difference between separation and annexation. In general, do we have many examples of countries changing borders forcibly after some time mid-last century? I certainly don't remember such a thing from G7. In this light, annexation of Crimea stands out as a regression to older - and less civilized by some standards - ways of doing things.
- vetinari 10y agoDoes that change the fact, that NATO did forcibly take a territory from Serbia? That is supposed to be OK? For all intents and purposes, the Kosovo government will do whatever the US government wants. The terminus technicus is puppet government. Even Crimea itself is an example of stolen territory. It was part of Russia, until (Ukrainian) Khrushchev moved it under administration of Ukrainian SSR in 1954. It was excused as being in the same country anyway. When USSR dissolved, the Crimean referendum about returning it back to Russia was ignored by the newly-formed government in Kiev. Bismark knew 150 years ago not to try to cheat the Russians. They will always come and take back, what's theirs.
- xiaoma 10y agoIf it worked that way, most of Russia would belong to Mongolia.
- vetinari 10y agoIf you want to be intellectually honest towards yourself, you must admit that Russia was going to be cheated off Crimea. They didn't accept that. That's all.
- xiaoma 10y agoI am being intellectually honest. Going back generations and claiming historical territory doesn't work peacefully in the long run.