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Will not make that same mistake again. on sunday of this week, russia is having the crimea peninsula in ukraine vote not on becoming an independent nation but on becoming part of russia. if crimea were to vote on becoming an independent nation, then you re back to the vanuatu problem. that would give every other country in the world a chance to express their opinion by whether or not they recognize it as an independent nation, whether or not they send an ambassador. whether they set up embassies, whether they open up trade relations. all of these other things you have to do if another country come into an existence and would be just like what happened in georgia. instead, if russia just takes crimea into its own territory, takes crimea into the existing nation of russia, then russia does something that is arguably even more inflammatory to the international community. just unilaterally annexing new territory. but it s an action that saves them from the vanuatu-style international humil ....
The question is, does putin stop there? does russia stop there? so if you look at a map, this is, obviously, crimea. this area along the russian border is sympathetic to russia, and we have another map that shows how this country voted in previous elections. and in previous elections, candidates that were favorable to russia were more no, that s not the map. the other map. one more. that shows there we go. the her tan ditage divide. the red area along the line i drew, the part of the country that is poor-russia, sympathetic to russia and voted for pro-russian candidates. if crimea becomes annexed, what happens to the rest? yeah. there have been noises coming out of the foreign ministry, certainly the russian media that the russian speaking and russian ....