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For the sake of peace :), I'll take a stab.
Falkands' residents are overwhelmingly British. And upwards of 80
percent of residents in Crimea are either Russians or have Russian
relatives. And an overwhelming majority of Crimean residents want to
associate with Russia, not the strange-looking Kiev government
nurtured by Victoria Nuland with billions of NED money and closely
nannied by VP Joe Biden.
They are pro-Russian for good reasons.
Crimea is historically and culturally Russian. Yalta, a city by the
Black Sea, is in Crimea and is famously Russian for a variety of
reasons. Among them is Anton Chekhov, one of the famous Russian
writers of all time.
Another is the Yalta Conference. Recall that the host at the time was
Joseph Stalin. If the residents were real haters of Russia, Stalin
being there to host Roosevelt and Churcill in the twilight years of
WWII would have certainly been a strong reason for them to choose the
State Department's Vicki over Volodya in 2014. But no, when the
Russian soldiers went down the peninsula that very night, when locals
weren't sure whether they were one of their own, they said: "Do not
fear, we are with you!" Not one shot was fired in the process. The
rest is history.
Then we can also learn from the vast mountain of information available
on the internet that much of Russia's one-millenium history was about
struggles between the Russians and tartars, with most of the tartars
eventually getting absorbed into Russia.
Finally, the Kerch Strait bridge project shows great care from Russia
to Crimea. The importance Russia attached to Crimea is nothing to
sneer at. It is not an attitude of a colonialist or an occupier.
lo yeeOn