Maybe there is a third option, other than appeasement or threats. Maybe we can try and understand why people of now a third eu member state chose such a political leader.
If you don't like it, kick USA out of NATO. Soon, please.
Crimea was part of Russia. Since 1783.
Oh but i love it. If anything nato should expand. Which it does.
> Crimea was part of Russia. Since 1783.
And before that it was ottoman. And before that mongol. And before that greek.
We froze borders, expect by force where people were genocidal, or by diplomacy everywhere else, after world war two.
Crimea is Ukrainian. Since 1954 love.
Out of curiosity, how did you creep in here?
Who are "we"? How did you "froze" border, what does that even mean?
After the WWII the borders in Europe had shifted multiple times, from the union of eastern and western Germanies and dissolution of the Soviet Union, to the teardown of Yugoslavia, the Kosovo case being the most controversial one.
And that's just Europe, not even talking about the rest of the world.
> Crimea is Ukrainian. Since 1954 love.
In 1954 Crimea had been a part of the Soviet Union, legally an autonomous republic (Crimean Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic). I am not sure which part of it suddenly makes it Ukrainian.
When the SU had dissolved, being an autonomous republic, Crimea was supposed to become a whole independent state on its own. And it had been for 3 or so years https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Crimea_(1992–199...
It became de facto Ukraine only after Ukraine brought it forcibly under control in 1995, abolishing the status of republic.
Educate yourself, love.