Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, says Microsoft

Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by c-smile on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:57PM (#17813748)

You missed cause and consequence. Unprovoked expansion of NATO happened first. After years of warnings. Ukraine was in the line. That non-democratic coup was a step to NATO and inspired/supported by NATO members.

And after that Crimean people expressed that they don't like that by voting out of it.

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by codedokode on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @06:58AM (#17817767)

So you are saying it is Ukraine's fault that NATO was expanding and it deserved a punishment? I cannot follow your logic.

Regarding referendum, it's results (95-96% vote for independence) are obviously falsified. There is nothing new: in 1938 Hitler also got 98-99% votes in occupied Austria [1]. Those 95% in Crimea as real as Hitler's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Anschluss_referendum,...

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by jazzyk on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:58AM (#17819133)

Germany/Austria in 1939 is a completely different case.

Let's take a look at the ethnic groups in Crimea - 2014 census:

Russians - 65%

Ukrainians - 15%

Crimean Tatars - 11%

Please note that, of the 15% of Ukrainians living there, most (60%) speak Russian as their first language.

We may argue if the 97% referendum result was rigged or not - we may never know.

But based on the above numbers I think that the people in Crimea really prefer to be part of Russia - because they are Russian!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Crimea

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