Comments by "Black Cat Dungeon Master\x27s Familiar" (@blackcatdungeonmastersfami5311) on "How And When Will the War in Ukraine End?" video.

@georgewright4285 I don't think there was a wide desire in Crimea to join Russia until after the Maidan coup. That's when the ethnic Russians in Donbas and Crimea and Odessa and even Kharkov started to perceive that the government in Kiev is hostile to them. Before the Maidan coup, relations between Russia and Ukraine were (usually) reasonably friendly and bringing Crimea back into the Russian federation was never a priority. The Maidan coup changed everything in Ukraine. I disagree with you that the Ukrainians don't talk about getting Crimea back. Zelensky just a few days ago talked about spending summer holidays there. It's the official position of the Ukrainian government that they'll get it back. It's delusional IMO.
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You're deluded. If Ukraine doesn't negotiate, Russia will destroy Ukraine. It will take a long time and it will be very expensive for Russia but Russia will do what it has to do. Europe and America don't want to fight Russia over Ukraine. And Russia has the manpower and resources to grind Ukraine into the dust.
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@georgewright4285 Russia would say the same about Crimea. Crimea was Russian long before it became Ukrainian. Also, most of the people in Crimea want to be part of Russia, not part of Ukraine. Even according to Western polling agencies.
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@michaeltoms7040 By your own argument, the vast majority of the population of North America, Australia and South America should move to Europe (and Africa) even if all their grandparents were born where they were born. 99% of the Taiwanese should move to mainland China. etc. But how far back do you want to go? Perhaps you should take your own advice because if you actually looked into who the Tartars are, to the extent that they're not interbred with everyone since, they're descended from incoming conquerors themselves, they're not the native people. Should they all move back to Mongolia? I don't think you've thought this through.
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@michaeltoms7040 My point is if you're arguing to kick out people whose ancestors moved there several hundred years ago - because the area was annexed by Russia in the reign of Catherine the Great - then you're creating an interesting precedent for the rest of the world. I'm not pro-Russian and I'm not pro-Ukrainian but the reality is, the large majority of people in Crimea want to be part of Russia, not part of Ukraine. A few years ago, even an outright majority of the large minority of ethnic Ukrainians in Crimea were happy to be part of Russia. Not as surprising as it sounds because pay and pensions in Russia are far higher than in Ukraine. In any case, nobody is going to be throwing Russia out of Crimea. Despite the Russians pulling out of Kherson, Ukraine is going to be lucky not to lose more territory before this war is over. As for rewarding people for holding the ground, we (the West) lost any credibility in 1999 when we seized Kosovo by force and took it off Serbia. Since then we've had all kinds of hypocrisy and lies in Iraq and Syria and Libya.
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@michaeltoms7040 If Ukraine is able to cut the water off to Crimea - and that's a big if - then that's going to convince Crimeans they should be part of Ukraine about as much as Russia is convincing the people of Kiev they should be part of Russia by cutting off their electricity. Actually cutting off the water before the war is a big reason why so many people in Crimea hate the Kiev regime As for rebuilding Ukraine - who's going to do that? Certainly not Britain. Britain's heading into probably the worst recession of our lives and is actually cutting military spending, foreign aid and raising taxes. Certainly not Germany. Germany is deindustrialising - its manufacturing model was built on cheap Russian gas. Certainly not America. America can't afford it either and the population is sick of foreign wars, they're still wondering how they managed to waste two trillion in Afghanistan with nothing to show for it. These tens of billions of aid given to Ukraine - the vast majority was actually loans, not presents. Ukraine started off amongst the poorest countries in Europe and is losing millions of people to emigration. If there isn't a negotiated peace soon, the Russians have already demonstrated they can easily cut off electricity to the cities, most people still remaining will leave over the winter because the alternative is sitting in a dark and literally freezing apartment block with no lifts, no water and for many, no ability to even earn money. Even before the war, a lot of Ukrainians were desperate to get to the EU. Once they actually make that step, most won't want to go back even if there is some kind of peace.
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