I have loads of friends in both Kiev and Moscow and the whole thing stinks.
we (USA) stirred up the Maidan (CIA) in the first place, and aided in deposing Yanukovych and installing Poroshenko.
The Crimean residents have largely been dual or Russian passport holders since WW2 anyway. It used to be full of Tatars, until Catherine the Great imported loyal Slovaks to help send them packing to central Asia, as there were loyalty issues vs the Ottomans.
In any case, the whole "Russia is not gay friendly!" propaganda started to be emitted around that time... (as if traditional Slavic society was any different in Poland or Ukraine? as if Matthew Shepard wasn't beaten to death naked tied to a fence post in Wyoming USA...)
I have loads of friends in both Kiev and Moscow and the whole thing stinks.
we (USA) stirred up the Maidan (CIA) in the first place, and aided in deposing Yanukovych and installing Poroshenko.
The Crimean residents have largely been dual or Russian passport holders since WW2 anyway. It used to be full of Tatars, until Catherine the Great imported loyal Slovaks to help send them packing to central Asia, as there were loyalty issues vs the Ottomans.
In any case, the whole "Russia is not gay friendly!" propaganda started to be emitted around that time... (as if traditional Slavic society was any different in Poland or Ukraine? as if Matthew Shepard wasn't beaten to death naked tied to a fence post in Wyoming USA...)