On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 10:50:40 +1000 Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 09:24:24PM -0300, juan wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Jul 2016 09:45:52 +1000 > > Zenaan Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On Fri, Jul 08, 2016 at 05:23:16PM -0300, juan wrote: > > > > > Instead all we get is endless repetition of the western MSM > > > > > meme "Russia illegally annexed Crimea". > > > > > > > > They did. > > > > > > How is a "legal" secession to happen, for it to be classified as > > > "legal"? > > > > People who want to join russia, join russia. People who > > don't want to, don't. And sane people who don't want to be governed > > by any mafia are left alone and 'stateless'. And this last > > kind of secession is the only meaningful one by the way. > > So then, why was the referendum in Crimea and the apparrently > overwhelming "want" of the people of Crimea to secede from Ukraine > and "join Russia", somehow "illegal"? Was there an option to not join any state? Or even create an 'indepenent' state? Rhetorical question of course... Plus, 97% voted "yes"? That's very hard to believe. Plus, crimea was annexed by the russian empire in ~1780. That looks like a precendent of sorts...
