(06-20-2019, 10:19 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-20-2019, 08:37 PM)Predator Wrote: By the way, the Russians signed a treaty with the Ukraine in 1997 to respect the borders. So they had no rightful claim to the Crimean.

Oh I didn't say it was rightful.
I did say why they felt justified in doing it.
They're not the first country to suddenly and unilaterally break a treaty with their neighbors and they won't be the last.
I do think we have made a bigger deal out of it than it really is.

Your whole argument is based on justifying it when there is no justification.

The fact of the matter is the UN still doesn't recognize Russia's claim on the Crimean. They see it as a hostile occupation of another sovereign nation. Basically a land grab for 80% of the energy resources of a soverign nation with which Russia had signed a "Friendship Treaty" agreeing to the boarders in 1997.

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