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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 410254" data-attributes="member: 35">Are you an apologist for Democrats?&nbsp; You certainly defend them enough.I called Putin a war criminal, and the article stated that he&#039;s a &quot;tyrant&quot; and an &quot;amoral opportunist.&quot;&nbsp; It&#039;s important to recognize that, but it&#039;s also important to remain objective and tell the entire story.&nbsp; The article laid out the series of events that led to the annexation of Crimea.&nbsp; Not surprisingly, it&#039;s much more nuanced than you&#039;re making it out to be:&quot;In 1954, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev administratively transferred the Crimea to the Ukraine, an essentially meaningless move at the time, since no one anticipated the demise and breakup of the Soviet Union several decades later. When Ukraine declared independence in 1991, it took Crimea along, even though there are four times as many ethnic Russians as Ukrainians in Crimea, which had been part of Russia since its annexation under Catherine the Great in 1783. Not long after Ukrainian independence, a pro-Russian popular movement arose in Crimea, which was repressed by the Ukrainian government.&quot;The article also states that &quot;Putin is an amoral opportunist, and he certainly did not send troops into Crimea out of concern for the Crimean people. But it&#039;s nonetheless true that a majority of Crimeans supported a union with Russia, and voted accordingly in an election held over Crimea&#039;s new status.The current conflict in eastern Ukraine is broadly similar. After the Maidan revolution, the Ukrainian government repressed and sought to de-Russify populations in Donetsk and Luhansk, together known as the Donbas, a region that lies along Ukraine&#039;s southeastern border with Russia. Russian is the main language of 75% of residents in Donetsk and nearly 70% in Luhansk. A Russian separatist movement has emerged in the region, clearly supported by Putin&#039;s government.&quot;News alert!&nbsp; Biden has been president for over 3 years while you&#039;ve been shouting &quot;WHAT ABOUT TRUMP?&quot;!&nbsp; Biden is tied to his son&#039;s schemes, so it&#039;s not just about Hunter.Biden was accused of rape, of showering with his daughter, and is guilty of funding a genocide in Gaza and a war in Ukraine.&nbsp; But WHAT ABOUT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Underwood, post: 410254, member: 35"] Are you an apologist for Democrats? You certainly defend them enough. I called Putin a war criminal, and the article stated that he's a "tyrant" and an "amoral opportunist." It's important to recognize that, but it's also important to remain objective and tell the entire story. The article laid out the series of events that led to the annexation of Crimea. Not surprisingly, it's much more nuanced than you're making it out to be: "In 1954, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev administratively transferred the Crimea to the Ukraine, an essentially meaningless move at the time, since no one anticipated the demise and breakup of the Soviet Union several decades later. When Ukraine declared independence in 1991, it took Crimea along, even though there are four times as many ethnic Russians as Ukrainians in Crimea, which had been part of Russia since its annexation under Catherine the Great in 1783. Not long after Ukrainian independence, a pro-Russian popular movement arose in Crimea, which was repressed by the Ukrainian government." The article also states that "Putin is an amoral opportunist, and he certainly did not send troops into Crimea out of concern for the Crimean people. But it's nonetheless true that a majority of Crimeans supported a union with Russia, and voted accordingly in an election held over Crimea's new status. The current conflict in eastern Ukraine is broadly similar. After the Maidan revolution, the Ukrainian government repressed and sought to de-Russify populations in Donetsk and Luhansk, together known as the Donbas, a region that lies along Ukraine's southeastern border with Russia. Russian is the main language of 75% of residents in Donetsk and nearly 70% in Luhansk. A Russian separatist movement has emerged in the region, clearly supported by Putin's government." News alert! Biden has been president for over 3 years while you've been shouting "WHAT ABOUT TRUMP?"! Biden is tied to his son's schemes, so it's not just about Hunter. Biden was accused of rape, of showering with his daughter, and is guilty of funding a genocide in Gaza and a war in Ukraine. But WHAT ABOUT [I]FORMER[/I] PRESIDENT TRUMP? [/QUOTE]

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