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The Ukraine annexation by Russia was supported by most of the local residents, though. The way to resolve situations where regions of the country want to become
by sevenless 10y ago
The Ukraine annexation by Russia was supported by most of the local residents, though. The way to resolve situations where regions of the country want to become independent or join another nation is by allowing them to vote on secession.
- ajuc 10y agoThe referendum was performed with Russian army and some local thugs overseeing it with guns ready, I'm not 100% sure it was representative, but let's not argue about that here, it's offtopic anyway, because Russia didn't only invaded parts with Russian majority. Russia also invaded parts of Ukraine that had Ukrainian majority, and war still goes on there (just less intensive). There's nothing preventing them from invading still more parts. So "let's just give away contested territories" is not a good solution - because if 30% minority is contested territory- then after giving it away - it will be contested territory for the other side as well. We've tried this after WW1 and it didn't worked.