You don’t get that sort of extreme result without gilding the lily via obvious cheating, thuggish Cossacks, and “little green men” (i.e. armed Russian soldiers “on vacation”). Not that I blame Putin – throwing some red meat to his mouth-breathing ultra-nationalist supporters is a major point of these expansionist exercises.
Russia could have re-gained Crimea legitimately, both from a democratic and historic POV. But gangstas gonna gangsta.
Thank you for that refreshing moment of imperialist frankness, Professor Dugin.
