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Because they don't want to allow Russia to use it as a port or for commerce; Russia has been trying to take the Crimea for commercial purposes for the last mill
by bin0 7y ago
Because they don't want to allow Russia to use it as a port or for commerce; Russia has been trying to take the Crimea for commercial purposes for the last millenium or so. And because they don't have the guts to sanction all of Russia.
- dvt 7y agoFurther, sanctioning all of Russia would probably break the Principle of Proportionality[1]. [1] https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/law-9780199231690-e1459 https://opil.ouplaw.com/view/10.1093/law:epil/9780199231690/...
- bin0 7y agoI'd disagree with that. Russia seizing foreign territory is an extremely concerning act. The goal could well be to cripple Russia and ideally promote regime change such that she becomes an ally of America; this works towards that.
- jessaustin 7y ago1954, when USSR voluntarily transferred Crimea to its then-vassal state Ukraine, was 65 years ago, not 1,000.
- buran 7y agoCrimea and Kuban were removed from Ukraine after soviet occupation, then "gifted" back in exchange for other territories of Ukraine of same size. However, Ukrainians, Tatars, and Greeks were exterminated first, to free space for Russian colonists.
- jessaustin 7y ago1783 was also not 1,000 years ago.
- buran 7y agoYou are making same mistake as many others. Russian Federation != Russia. If something was owned by Russia, then it doesn't mean that it should be owned by Russian Federation automatically. Russian Federation tries to pretend like they are the only right owners of everything, viewing others nations as traitors, who need to be executed for their act of stealing from Mother Russia. In reality, Russian Empire (AKA Jail of Nations) was disbanded. Each nation had right to create their own country. Actual Russia renamed itself into Ukraine. Russian Federation has same rights on territory of Russian Empire as other nations, but RF uses lies and fakes to pretend like it has more rights than others, then start wars and captures or tries to capture territories, which they newer owned in first place.
- shitgoose 7y agohere is a quick visual: https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kgou/files/styles/x_large/public/201403/Torelli2.jpg https://mediad.publicbroadcasting.net/p/kgou/files/styles/x_... Catherine the Great celebrates the victory over Turks in Crimea in 1772. here is the text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Russian_Empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Crimea_by_the_Ru... Russian empire took Crimea from Ottoman empire in late 1700's.
- buran 7y agoRussian Federation != Russia and doesn't contain a region called "Russia". Actual Russia renamed itself into Ukraine.