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Hasn't most colonisation involved war?

I appreciate that but what else would describe German expansion?

Can you just remind us all when was the last time a western democracy annexed an area of land by using military presence to allegedly protect their ethnic population, force through a hurried referendum which didn't include the obvious question of staying with the status quo (a new political...

Not quite a century, more like 75 years!!!

Maybe you should move into the 21st century rather than the 19th!!!

Out of interest, exactly when was Russia a truly communist state as opposed to a Police one?

You can just see Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Stalin all looking down (or up!) saying ' ah Putin, that's my boy. A return to the good old days!'

Firstly, there are already russian troops in the Crimea. Secondly, if Ukraine says sod it, we don't need Crimea they can go their own way. Putin can tenuously claim that the autonomous government of Crimea called him in but he can't do that in Ukraine.

As much as the intervention of the soviet military is unwelcome from a world wide point of view, you have to ask the question what exactly is Ukraine's legitimate claim to Crimea bearing in mind it only became part of the region under the auspices of the USSR and, technically, probably only part...

Ukranians screwed up. All this should have happened before the olympics as Russia would have been reticent about getting involved before the showpiece. Now, the only real outcome is that Crimea, who have never really been part of Ukraine apart from 50 manufactured years, should be independent...