Randahl FinkDec 21, 2023

Every time I hear Times Radio discussing whether Crimea could perhaps be given to Russia in exchange for peace, I feel like asking how British folk would feel, if Denmark had a radio show pretending to have a serious debate about returning the Danelaw to Denmark.

Just like Britain is Britain, Ukraine is Ukraine. And no matter how many times the Murdoch media empire keeps platforming people who insist on both-siding Putin’s illegal invasion, that will never change.

#Ukraine

Show threadEpiphanicSynchronicityDec 21, 2023
@randahl It’s not quite the same. Crimea was part of Russia from 1783 to 1954. At the time, the transfer to Ukraine was essentially an administrative one, as both Ukraine and Russia were part of the Soviet Union.
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@EpiphanicSynchronicity in 1991, 54.2 percent of Crimeans voted to leave the Soviet Union. That was a democratic decision which is recognized by the UN.
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Show threadEpiphanicSynchronicityDec 21, 2023
@randahl I didn’t say I condoned Russia’s seizure of Crimea. I said that it isn’t quite the same as Denmark seizing half of England on the grounds that it was occupied by Viking raiders in the Middle Ages would be.