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To: Bonefish who wrote (1353128)	4/8/2022 4:54:10 PM
From: Winfastorlose	1 Recommendation Recommended By Mick Mørmøny Respond to of 1583396

In 2014 Nuland set up a coup in Ukraine. She even bragged about it later. Russia was already in Crimea and had been there for hundreds of years. The population was primarily Russian and Tatar. Russia's black sea naval base was there (as it had always been) . Russia was officially "leasing it" from the Ukies, but once the Nazis took power in the coup and forced Yanukovich to flee, they moved to protect tbeir interests and secured it so a referendum could take place. It was a foregone conclusion as to how the people would vote because they were mostly Russian. The break was overwhelmingly approved. and then they approved joining Russia.

To: Bonefish who wrote (1353128)	4/8/2022 4:57:21 PM
From: Broken_Clock	2 Recommendations Recommended By Maple MAGA Winfastorlose Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1583396

"Putin had already taken the Crimea." When do we give Cuba Guantanamo back? or Hawaii? In 1774, the Ottoman Empire was defeated by Catherine the Great. Crimea was traded to Russia as part of the treaty provisions, and annexed in 1783. After two centuries of conflict, the Russian fleet had destroyed the Ottoman navy and the Russian army had inflicted heavy defeats on the Ottoman land forces. The ensuing Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca forced the Sublime Porte to recognize the Tatars of the Crimea as politically independent. Catherine the Great's incorporation of the Crimea in 1783 from the defeated Ottoman Empire into the Russian Empire increased Russia's power in the Black Sea area. The Crimea was the first Muslim territory to slip from the sultan's suzerainty. The Ottoman Empire's frontiers would gradually shrink, and Russia would proceed to push her frontier westwards to the Dniester. The Crimean War was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856 in which Russia lost to an alliance of France, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and Piedmont-Sardinia. The immediate cause of the war involved the rights of Christian minorities in Palestine, which was part of the Ottoman Empire. The French promoted the rights of Roman Catholics, and Russia promoted those of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Longer-term causes involved the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the expansion of the Russian Empire in the preceding Russo-Turkish Wars, and the British and French preference to preserve the Ottoman Empire to maintain the balance of power in the Concert of Europe. It has widely been noted that the causes, in one case involving an argument over a key, had never revealed a "greater confusion of purpose" but led to a war that stood out for its "notoriously incompetent international butchery". In 1921 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created. This republic was dissolved in 1945, and the Crimea became an oblast first of the Russian SSR (1945–1954) and then the Ukrainian SSR (1954–1991). From 1991 the territory was covered by the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol City within independent Ukraine. However, during the 2014 Crimean crisis, the peninsula was taken over by Russia and a referendum on whether to rejoin Russia was held. Shortly after the result in favour of joining Russia was announced, Crimea was annexed by the Russian Federation as two federal subjects: the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol.