Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 11

ToxicBunny said:
For the first year yeah, but surely in the intervening years it would have become a target.

Or of course, its been a target for ages, but their weaponry is so inaccurate they haven't been able to hit it.
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I rate the fact that they are attacking it now is a sign that they are finally giving up on that fantasy and are coming to terms with the fact that they will never take Kyiv.
 
Crimea is Russian, has been Russian and will remain Russian. An alternate thesis would not even survive an outside Polymarket bet.
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The Crimean Referendums of 1991 and 1994

Looking back at the two previous Crimean referendums: in 1991 in the latter days of the Soviet Union; and in 1994 as the region sought greater autonomy.
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But in early 1994, after a polarising election campaign, Crimeans elected as their President a strongly pro-Russian candidate, Yuriy Meshkov. A power struggle between the Ukrainian parliament and the Crimean parliament commenced. Another Crimean referendum in March 1994 asked three questions: ‘1.3 million voted, 78.4% of whom supported greater autonomy from Ukraine, 82.8% supported allowing dual Russian-Ukrainian citizenship, and 77.9% favored giving Crimean presidential decrees the force of law’. Yet after more political turbulence – with the Crimean parliament voting to oust Meshkov in September – in March 1995 the Ukrainian parliament unilaterally abolished the post of President of Crimea, and scrapped the Crimean constitution. The Crimean parliament was forced to define a new constitution, which the Ukrainian parliament finally ratified in 1998.
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So when the interim Ukrainian government today talks about the Crimean parliament’s lack of legislative power – when it comes to appointing a Prime Minister, and when it comes to calling a referendum – there is an argument that this power was taken from Crimeans by Kiev in an underhand, undemocratic, if not entirely illegitimate manner back in 1995.
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