The cornerstone question - is whose Crimea?

The essay is still relevant today...

The question "Is Crimea ours?" and today, 9 years after
the reunification of the peninsula with Russia,
it remains an actual, borderline division of the human community.
Maybe even more relevant than 9 years ago.
And first of all, it determines the position of people in our country itself.
It is clear that the majority of compatriots will answer it
correctly and unambiguously, briefly and clearly:
- Crimea is ours.

It is all the sadder that there is a large array of our fellow
citizens who will give different answers.
Here are a few such options:
- Crimea is not ours.
- The Ukrainian Crimea.
- Let's see whose it will be.
- Crimea legally belongs to Ukraine.
What a variety of opinions, however...

Let's have some fun with these people.
To begin with, we will determine, approximately, their social status:
in the age category after 16,
these are mainly urban residents
who enjoy all the benefits provided to them
by a not-quite-or-not-loved Homeland:
the Internet, who have received higher or secondary education in Russia -
having professions, earnings, children, apartments, cars, cottages, pensions are all benefits...
In short, these are the so-called explicit, hidden (everyday)
"long-term liberalists" and long-term Russophobes.
Since February 2022, their ranks have been replenished by people who, for various reasons
, decided or were forced to leave Russia - the topic of a separate article.

And now about what we can say to the answers of our antipodes to the cornerstone question.
The answer is "Crimea is Ukrainian" - sorry, Ukraine, as a state, has been gone for a long time!
There is a neocolony of Western countries, primarily the United States,
ruled by a bandit, terrorist, misanthropic regime.

The answer is "Crimea legally belongs to Ukraine" - laws have long been in this world are not an obstacle
for US governments and politicians, their servants - the countries of Western "democracies"
(nothing can be said against US military bases on their territory!).
Here are vivid proofs of this from the depths of history and recent realities:

Proof 1. Beyond any laws, the dismemberment of the independent state of Czechoslovakia
in the autumn of 1938, after the Munich agreement, gave rise to the Second World War -
the great disaster of many peoples (Jews, have not forgotten how the Holocaust began?).

Proof 2. The first use of atomic weapons in the war
against the peaceful cities of Japan - Hiroshima and Nagasaki
by the American military in August 1945.
Under what democratic laws were these weapons used?
That's right, according to the misanthropic concept of the American ruling and war criminals
, the right of the strongest is above all God's and human laws.
But it was only possible to threaten wisely and persistently!

Proof 3. Explosion of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream-2 gas pipelines - international,
European, energy projects on September 26, 2022,
Of course, it is a unique, illegal, unprecedented act
of aggressive, Western governments against the stable energy supply of European countries,
against mutually beneficial, economic, international cooperation.

There are many examples of misanthropic crimes of the USA and their servants:
from the Indians of America to Vietnam, Yugoslavia, Iraq -
interested readers will find their bloody, cannibalistic traces on almost all continents...

LET'S SUMMARIZE THE RESULTS.
Those who say "Crimea is not ours", "Crimea is Ukrainian",
"Crimea belongs to Ukraine by law," they are undoubtedly trying to convince you,
that Crimea is a "legitimate" territory, a neocolony of the United States, which can have
its military bases and biological laboratories on the peninsula.
Send such "experts" far away...
And with those who propagandize such views in the media (mainly on the Internet),
it's time to deal with them harshly and quickly
in the capitals, in provincial towns. According to the laws of wartime...

The answer is "Let's see whose it will be" -
Crimea was and will be ours,
and there is no need to look.

Vladimir Pavlov
Velikye Luki
May 4-6, 2023