Comments by "michael close" (@6226superhurricane) on "Details of Trump's potential Russia-Ukraine peace deal revealed" video.

  1. all that land was previously part of russia, russia traded it to ukraine for nukes in the 1950's but they reserved the right to access their naval base there in perpetuity. usa staged a coup in ukraine in 2014 and installed an anti russian president who started persecuting ethno russians in eastern ukraine which was formerly russia. those ethno russians then succeeded from ukraine and formed their own republics. ukraine have been trying to retake it for 10yrs, they've lost most of their men, burnt through billions of dollars and went backwards. ukraine could never join nato with a russian naval base in their country, there was only ever two options. ukraine gives up part of their land or russia gives up it's only warm water naval base. russia has a rightful claim to it's naval base and the only scenario where russia gives up it's naval base is after a nuclear war. ukraine should have negotiated a favourable deal to sell/trade back some of the land in eastern ukraine 10yrs ago.
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  2.  @joe5923  Crimea was part of Russia from 1783, when the Tsarist Empire annexed it a decade after defeating Ottoman forces in the Battle of Kozludzha, until 1954, when the Soviet government transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics (RSFSR) to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkrSSR). The transfer was announced in the Soviet press in late February 1954
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