That’s the thing with international law…you can hold a referendum if you want to, but it doesn’t mean you get to just give the land to someone else. The entire country needs to decide on that…not just one region.
If those people want to become Russian citizens, they have every right to apply for citizenship and move to Russia. No one is stopping them. But they don’t get to take the land with them. That land belongs to Ukraine. All of Ukraine. Taking it, without the rest of the country agreeing to let it go, typically results in civil war.
The problem however, is when foreign countries like Russia intervene in order to tip the scales and take that land for themselves. That is illegal. That is an act of aggression. It is an act of war. Not just civil war, but open war between nations.
Ukraine didn’t start that. They didn’t attack Russia. Russia attacked them. And then continued their effort to steal more land, by openly invading the country.
Honestly, if that’s your take-away from what I said…then you didn’t understand any of it. China has no more “rights” over Taiwan, than Russia does over Ukraine.
Lol! The “entire country of China” fell apart when Taiwan split off. If you really want to be technical about it, Taiwan actually represents the “real” government of China, since that’s where the previously existing government took refuge during the Communist revolution. All that remained of “China”, was on that island. What was created on the mainland was something new. Something different.
The exact same situation occurred with Ukraine and the Russian Federation during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ceased to exist. In its place, separate countries were formed.
That’s the thing with international law…you can hold a referendum if you want to, but it doesn’t mean you get to just give the land to someone else. The entire country needs to decide on that…not just one region.
If those people want to become Russian citizens, they have every right to apply for citizenship and move to Russia. No one is stopping them. But they don’t get to take the land with them. That land belongs to Ukraine. All of Ukraine. Taking it, without the rest of the country agreeing to let it go, typically results in civil war.
The problem however, is when foreign countries like Russia intervene in order to tip the scales and take that land for themselves. That is illegal. That is an act of aggression. It is an act of war. Not just civil war, but open war between nations.
Ukraine didn’t start that. They didn’t attack Russia. Russia attacked them. And then continued their effort to steal more land, by openly invading the country.
Watch (at least) the first fifteen and a half minutes (the introduction).
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Honestly, if that’s your take-away from what I said…then you didn’t understand any of it. China has no more “rights” over Taiwan, than Russia does over Ukraine.
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Lol! The “entire country of China” fell apart when Taiwan split off. If you really want to be technical about it, Taiwan actually represents the “real” government of China, since that’s where the previously existing government took refuge during the Communist revolution. All that remained of “China”, was on that island. What was created on the mainland was something new. Something different.
The exact same situation occurred with Ukraine and the Russian Federation during the collapse of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union ceased to exist. In its place, separate countries were formed.
Oh yeah China totally fell apart and that is why they manufacture everything you own today.
Aah. You don’t know anything about 20th century history, do you?
Supremely ironic coming from someone as clearly miseducated as yourself.
So you don’t actually know about the Cultural Revolution in China during their transition to Communism?