No., the majority are ethnic Ukraine, although Russia has made it very easy for Russians to settle there and has oppressed the Ukrainians there.
Historically the Crimea has never been
Histrorically te Crimea was perfectly happy to be part of anybody who didnt murder them. Today the best bet is Ukraine
It originated when 'prove' meant 'test' rather than today's 'show to be true'. Hence a test area was a 'proving ground'. Something might prove to be a failure.
What the saying meant is that a single exception actually tests the rule, and shows it to be false, whereas no number of compliances will ever show the rule to be true.
Given today's meaning of 'prove', the saying is now indeed just plain silly.
Joe snipped-for-privacy@jretrading.com wrote
I don't buy that either.
Fraid not.
In '69 the USMC had training platoons where Hispanics were taught marksmanship, field craft, and enough English to get by.
Of course Roosevelt and Churchill were fine with supporting Stalin and dooming eastern Europe to decades of oppression.
Presumably many of the United Irishmen in 1798 spoke English; Wolfe Tone certainly did. The Brits put that attempt for freedom down rather harshly and then were wily enough to drive a wedge between Catholics and Protestants.
Well, Joe did try his best to completely empty it of Tatars and replace them with ethnic Russians...
People in sw Louisiana mostly spoke Cajun French until WWII, when draftees were taught English. There are still some Cajun speakers and a distinct Cajun accent.
At this point there is no going back. If in some rainbow and unicorn world Ukraine regained control of the Don Basin and Crimea, how do you think ethnic Russians would be treated? Something like the way the Soviets treated ethnic Germans on their way to Berlin?
Gotta give the Asians their chance.
The Ukrainians are outlawing the Russian language, burning books by Russian authors, and attacking the Russian Orthodox church. That 58.32% would have to be crazy to want to be under Zelensky's thumb.
They had no choice about that. It was never going to be possible to stop that.
rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote
The Normans invaded Ireland LONG before that.
rbowman snipped-for-privacy@montana.com wrote
Different matter entirely.
We'll see if Putin's invasion of the Ukraine fails as badly as his attempt at invading Georgia did.
Don't need rainbows or unicorns. Russia couldnt even manage to keep what it had in Afghanistan.
They would be allowed to f*ck off back where they came from just like those who moved into the Baltic countrys were.
Nope, nothing like.
Bullshit they are.
Bullshit they are.
But most of them have moved there from Russia and would be free to f*ck off back where they came from.
Not Churchill. He wanted to carry on the war and drive the Russians out of Europe, Roosevelt overruled him, and left Russia a world power and pushed Britain into decline.
He spent the next decade trying to wake the Americans up. Until NATO was finally created.
Rod Speed is very...er...ignorant and opinionated.
I t9ld you not to beleive Russian propaganda.
The reason there are so many Russians now is that they drove the Ukrainians out post 2014 and made huge incentives for Russians to move there.
They have mostly gone back to Russia now.
Says the clown that proclaimed that if the UK even dared to consider Brexit, it would be Leopard tanks thru the Chunnel in hours.
That sound dangerously Popperian.
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