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Actually because of the restraint Russia has been showing in the last few years, I hold their leadership in very high regard.
by finid 10y ago
Actually because of the restraint Russia has been showing in the last few years, I hold their leadership in very high regard.
- int_19h 10y agoRussia was the first country in Europe to invade and annex a part of a neighboring country since, what, WW2? If that's restraint, I hesitate to ask what the lack of it would look like.
- jacquesm 10y agoTurkey, Cyprus.
- int_19h 10y agoTurkey didn't annex Northern Cyprus. Nor did Albania annex Kosovo, nor Russia itself annexed South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Transnistria before. It's the combination of invasion and annexation - effectively, waging war for a formally acknowledged territorial gain - that makes the situation in Crimea unique post WW2.
- jacquesm 10y agoWell, technically it was Greece that tried the annexation and Turkey does maintain a large military on Cyprus. But you're right, the Crimea is both in scale, scope and ambition on a different level.
- xnlvkYDNCXjJw 10y agoDidn't Russia annex Crimea? How are the sanctions not Russia's fault??
- PhasmaFelis 10y agoWhich restraint would that be?