Crimeans celebrate the reunificationFrom an article at Beorn's Beehive that celebrated the 5th anniversary...As 2.5 million Crimeans celebrated, the West was gnashing its collective teeth as the loss of a prospective military base for the #USA to...
... put their missiles aimed at #Moscow. #Sanctions followed, trying to punish the Crimeans for their choice. #Ukraine, with the Western blessing, blew up the electric power lines as well as left the peninsular without water, leading to a large-scale humanitarian disaster. No-one bombed the Obama regime for organising it, but #Russia rather quickly managed to restore both water and power to the peninsular through a dedicated infrastructure bridge.More sanctions followed from the West. The Rus...
...sians felts especially betrayed by the Germans – only in 1989 Gorbachev, against the strategic interests of the USSR, and to the hollow #NATO promises of “not one inch East of Berlin”, green-lighted the reunification of the German people. And that is how the Germans repaid when the #Russian people reunified – by slapping on sanctions.Time passed, and Russia continued to undo the damage done to #Crimea by the 25 years of Ukrainian neglect. They built new infrastructures, built new internati...
...onal airport, built a large mosque for the Crimean Tatars and recognised their language as one of the three official languages in Crimea (something Ukraine promised to do, but never did), they built the miracle of engineering – the Kerch railway and motor bridge, they restored Artec...@BeornAndTheShieldmaidenBoost