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There wasn't an invasion of Crimea or Ukraine, either.
The US-coup in Kiev resulted in the overruling and nullification of Ukraine's constitution, which left Crimea stateless (and Donbass too, for that matter). The current Ukrainian state has no constitutional continuity with the pre-coup Ukrainian state, and Crimea and Donbass have never been in a legal union with the post-coup Ukrainian state. Donbass is fully entitled to accept Russia's help in defending them against Kiev if that's their choice.
And since the dissolution of the USSR in 1991, Russia has had a large naval base in Crimea, and was allowed up to 25,000 troops in Crimea under a treaty with Kiev. At the time of the US-coup in Kiev, there were many thousands of Russian troops already present in Crimea. There was no invasion. Additionally, Russia's forces in Crimea were not detrimental or threatening to Crimea, but protected Crimea and ensured it was spared from the violence that the US-coup was caused in other parts of Ukraine.
Crimea's referendum was fully lawful, and its result has been verified by Western pollsters repeatedly - just as Crimea's desire to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia was surveyed by Western pollster, Kiev, and the UN, continually from 1991 until the day of their 2014 referendum. And all surveys showed that they always wanted to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia.
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No, Russia didn't invade Crimea, or any other part of Ukraine.
Since the dissolution of the USSR, Russia has had a large naval base in Crimea and was allowed up to 25,000 troops in Crimea by treaty with Kiev. At the time of the US-coup in Kiev, Russia had many thousands of troops in Crimea. And those troops helped secure Crimea and protect it from the violence that was happening elsewhere in Ukraine due to the US-coup in Kiev.
The US-coup in Kiev culminated in the overruling and nullification of Ukraine's constitution, ending that legal state of Ukraine and leaving Crimea (and Donbass) stateless.
The Crimean people are ethnically Russian, and they had always wanted to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia, and they had tried to do that for the last 2.5 decades, ever since the dissolution of the USSR, when they voted 94.3% in favour of leaving Ukraine. But as the USSR dissolved later than year, and Russia was then unable to support Crimea due to being broke, Crimea reluctantly accepted autonomous status in Ukraine. But they always tried to leave Ukraine and rejoin Russia from that time.
There was no invasion of Crimea and there has been no invasion of Ukraine by Russia. And everything said in this Vox video is false.
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