1) Supported by many claims and was linked to including verified phone calls.

2) http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/russia-wary-of-nat...

http://articles.latimes.com/2014/mar/04/opinion/la-oe-walker...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/dougbandow/2016/09/22/say-no-to-...

3)>"Gifted" because Khrushchev's transfer was ostensibly to mark the 300th anniversary of Ukraine's merger with the Russian empire. And he probably didn't think the Soviet Union would be gone less than 40 years later.

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2014/02/27/283481587/c...

4) 2/3 of Crimeans are ethnically Russian, and Russians have been the predominant people in Crimea for 100 years

> Supported by many claims and was linked to including verified phone calls.

And you've failed to produce any sources for those _many_ claims?

Color me suprprised.

Oh you're a fucking moron who can't read a thread.

Listen to the hacked Nuland-Pyatt call https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV9J6sxCs5k

Ron Paul: U.S. State Dept. Conspired To Overthrow Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZwPy8ogGXc

Ukraine’s Pres. Poroshenko Says Overthrow of Yanukovych Was a Coup http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/06/ukraines-pres-poroshe...

Do you seriously doubt that <50% of Crimean population would have voted to join Russia?

If the population is hostile to the supposed aggressor there's usually guerrilla warfare that starts almost immediately after the invasion.

History has no shortage of examples of this.

Yet there's an absence of this in Crimea.

Absence? So why Russia started to exile, suppress and kill Crimean Tatars then?

Because they refused to acknowledge the referendum and threatened violence?

So there _is_ a resistance movement in Crimea.