Comments by "LancesArmorStriking" (@LancesArmorStriking) on "US recognition of Israel’s claim over the Golan Heights" video.
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Born2BWild
I personally think that Crimea should belong to Russia, but not like this.
It's been ethnically Russian for almost the length of the existence of the U.S., so it has a claim to the area (unless the U.S. is willing to give back the land it took following 1783 as well).
Problem is, Premier Krushchev just went and gave Crimea to Soviet Ukraine in 1954, no say from the residents.
In 1991, I think Russia should have negotiated for Crimea (although I find it strange that all pre-Soviet borders were restored, except for that one).
In any case, they had an opportunity in Yalta and they missed it. This was under Putin as well, so deflection isn't an option.
They should have either done it then, or paid/negotiated for it in 2014, legally.
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