Not really that long.  Khrushchev shuffled Crimea into the Ukraine administrative region for internal political reasons in the 1950's.  Prior to that, the Crimean population was victimized by communist population shuffling because that's a favorite trick Bolshevik-inspired political thinkers (though they hardly invented it.)

Seems that the Crimean Tartars have dis-liked the Kiev-area psychos for a long time, and since the Ukrainian common underlying disposition has been lain bare following the 2014 coup it is very easy to understand why the Crimean's don't want anything to do with them.  Of course the Crimeans had plenty of problem with the Bolsheviks, Stalinist, etc from the Soviet power center reigions as well, but who hasn't?  I'm going to guess that they had issues with the czars prior to that.

Occam's Razor (and history) suggests that everyone wants Sevastopol for military reasons and those who missed it on the 2014 game of cake-walk (e.g., the 'Collective West') have not given up on their hope to somehow win it in the end.  Hopefully they don't start a nuclear war over it.

The 'distant past' is a confusing tangle of ethnic, military, and religious events.  Same as most areas.  I consider it of relatively minimal importance...but mostly because it doesn't involve me perhaps, although I don't give much of a fuck about my own 'linage' either so I'm not wired that way I guess.  Plus, I'm an American and we have kind of a cultural distrust of such things due to our own 'melting pot' traditions.  At least us older West Coast ones.

Much of my 'knowledge' comes from Wikipedia which is an especially deficient source when it comes to an understanding of anything of contemporary political significance.  I've simply not integrated disperate sources of info on this topic and analyzed them for years when it comes to this topic.  Sorry.

In reading it Wikipedia again just now, it remains unclear to me what the 'consensus' view of Russia among the Crimean Tartars might be now.  Two notable factors are worth considering:  One is that Russia today is not the Soviet Union prior to it's collapse, but how much said labeled ethnic group correlates the two is not clear.  Secondly, the ethnic cleansing of the area under the Soviets was extreme and even longer-lasting than most such operations they undertook.  'Crimea' probably did vote in a super-majority to align with Russia in 2014, but almost certainly that had to do with the ethnic makeup which was very strongly a result of Soviet era programs.

I couldn't say who most 'Crimean Tartars' would tend to hate more between Kiev and Moscow, but they have legacy reasons for complaints against both (and, historically speaking, both slavic groups have experienced insults from the 'Crimean Tartars' as well to be fair.)  Ultimately, being basically a minority in their own 'motherland', it doesn't matter as much when it comes to voting.

The question now is whether one would be better off from 2023 forward aligned with BRICS or with the 'Collective West' (for as long as either one lasts.)  If it were me, I would certainly choose BRICS for a variety of reasons.

Thanks. I couldn't agree with you more about BRICS. When you look at the financial dealings that Joe and Hunter have been doing in China, probably they are quietly diversifying into BRICS, as well, as a hedge against failure in Ukraine.

They can't win this war against Russian depending on US and NATO countries to continue  supportingsupply them with tanks looking at the time and the resources it will take to get in those equipments there.
Too they've lost the battle already by allowing the US to use their country as a battle ground to fight this proxy war against the Russian, which has caused mass destruction and their economy to crumble.

If things escalate more than this in the near future non of these two countries Ukraine or Russian will be safer for Americans because both countries are gonna feel the heat as well.

If Ukraine really wants to fight, that's their business. But it's kinda stupid of them.


What Happens Next In The Ukraine Proxy War? A New Russian Offensive In Spring

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https://alt-market.us/what-happens-next-in-the-ukraine-proxy-war-a-new-russian-offensive-in-spring/
Because globalism has pushed most nations into interdependency, an ongoing war in Ukraine could very well set off a chain of dominoes that tests America's already unstable financial system and supply chain.

I should note that I really don't care about the Ukrainian government or the Russian government and I have no interest in which side "wins." I, like many people, think Ukraine has nothing to do with the American public and is purely a proxy war being pursued by NATO. It is my belief that certain international interests (globalists) are keen for the conflict to continue regardless as they seek to exploit it as a crisis of opportunity.

All of my primary predictions for the Ukraine war have turned out to be true:

First, as I noted in my article 'The Globalist Reset Agenda Has Failed – Is Ukraine Plan B?', published in January 2022, a regional war (or proxy war) with Russia in Ukraine was the most likely scenario to unfold, followed by international calls for escalation against Russia.

Second, in my article 'Ukraine Learns The Value Of An Armed Citizenry, But Far Too Late', published in March, I noted that:

"The methods which Ukrainian forces are using to ambush Russian armor columns are rather advanced and familiar. I suspect the possibility that there are outside military "advisers" (perhaps US advisers) on the ground right now in Ukraine. The advanced guerrilla-style ambush tactics and the results look similar to training that is often given to Green Berets or SAS. The UK did send anti-tank weapons along with a small group of "trainers" to Ukraine in January."
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^^^ So then, the question is, why are the US and Nato backing off on their help for Ukraine? Are they running out of material and money to send? Are the people of those countries getting fed up with helping Ukraine? Or do they think that Ukraine doesn't need much if any more help?

I think the training of Ukrainian solders to fight like the West does, is simply the departing send-off. The West is done with Ukraine. She's on her own... or very shortly will be.

The spring offensive by Russia talked about in the article, might be the thing that will destroy Ukraine if the West's last boost doesn't work.


Russian Diplomats Issue Dire Warnings that War with US Is Close

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https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/russian-diplomats-issue-dire-warnings-that-war-with-us-is-close/
Meanwhile, Moscow's UN envoy declared that all of Russia's "red lines" have already been crossed.

Addressing lawmakers at Russia's State Duma on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov outlined the causes of the current conflict in Ukraine and the deterioration of US-Russia relations, saying Washington has a "maniacal desire to revive the neo-colonial unipolar world order."

"An integral part of this policy is the long-term containment of Russia, including through the expansion of NATO towards our borders, as well as the transformation of fraternal Ukraine into a Russophobic military stronghold," he said. "In recent years, this line of Washington and its European satellites has reached the point of no return."

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Washington and several other Western states gave assurances to Moscow that the NATO alliance would not expand beyond Germany. However, in the years since, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Donald Trump have each allowed new members to join the alliance, all of them inching closer to Russia's borders.
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^^^ They already got paid.

Debt is what the people and government owe to:
1. The Federal Reserve Bank;
1. Companies and Corporations;
3. Foreign governments.

In every case, the debt is secured by a promissory note of some kind... or maybe a bond.

Promissory notes and bonds are negotiable instruments, like checks and money orders. The debt was essentially prepaid by the promissory note before the money was loaned.

This shows that the prepayment was actually a creation of new money. More money in the system means more inflation. Inflation is absorbed by the people... a hardship on their lives.

There is no debt.

It's like you listen to a few minutes of talk radio every once in a while and then regurgitate what you can remember here when your weekly post count is low but don't actually have any idea what you're talking about.

"rightwing and/or Russian propaganda" == literally anything the current 'woke' retards have not been programmed to believe is 'the way(tm)'.  And pretty much everything they have not been instructed on at all.

Notice that any independent thoughts or synthesis is automatically labeled 'conspiracy theory' by the woke-tards unless it unambiguously helps one of their 'latest things' (Soros, Zelenski, Fauci, Biden, Gates, Cuomo (until recently), Pfizer, Lockheed-Martin, etc.) or hurts a perceived enemy (e.g., Trump.)  In the latter case it is stone cold proven fact to them.  It's amazing to see them work tirelessly for Blackrock even as they rarely even know what it is.  It's occurring to me that that ignorant support phenomenon has probably been the norm in most fascist dictatorships.

Thankfully these clowns almost to a person got at least their first set of de-pop shots as instructed, and most of the time the boosters as well unless the first blast killed them.  And they will certainly be dosing up on the 'new flu' mRNA shots as well.  That means we thinking people (a lot of us old-school left-wingers included) won't have to suffer their idiocy for to much longer.