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Why Hasan Gets It Wrong on Ukraine - LonerBox (YouTube)
- The video is written from the perspective of criticizing Hasan (duh) but I’m just writing down facts/info LonerBox presents
- Timeline
- Feb 11th - Biden warns Russia could attack on Feb 16th
- Interpreted as “inconclusive”
- European diplomats were skeptical
- Feb 17th - Biden says risk of Russian invasion ‘very high’
- Feb 21st - Russia recognizes independence of “separatist regions” of Donetsk, Luhansk, invades Ukraine as “peacekeepers”
- Feb 25th - Russia attacks Kyiv
- Feb 11th - Biden warns Russia could attack on Feb 16th
- Which poll is correct?
- Razumkov Center (Ukrainian) in 2008 found that 63.8% of Crimeans would like to secede from Ukraine and join Russia
- Gallup in 2013 found that only 23% of Crimeans would like to secede from Ukraine and join Russia
- Post 2014 (after annexation)
- Gallup poll suggests Crimeans were happy about seceding
- ‘do the results of the referendum to secede reflect the views of the people?’ (paraphrasing)
- 82.4% of Crimeans said yes to “the referendum to secede reflected the views of the people”
- 93.8% of ethnic Russians, and 68.4% of Ukrainians
- 82.4% of Crimeans said yes to “the referendum to secede reflected the views of the people”
- ‘will joining Russia ultimately make life better for them and their families?’ (paraphrasing)
- 73.9% said yes, 5.5% said no
- ‘do the results of the referendum to secede reflect the views of the people?’ (paraphrasing)
- Critics say the polling has been trash (volatile) since the Kremlin’s been in charge
- “intense propaganda”
- outlawing opponents, propaganda, intimidation tactics
- supported by UN, Foreign Affairs, others
- 140,000 - 300,000 Russians have moved to Crimea during the years of occupation (TODO: Look up dates on this)
- tens of thousands fled after Russian occupation
- LonerBox says ‘regardless, neither of these results would justify annexation’ (paraphrasing)
- Gallup poll suggests Crimeans were happy about seceding
- Ukraine referendum never had a “no” option
- Russians are dicks to Tartars (Human Rights Watch)
- boycotted referendum
- Misc.
- “were also right to oppose Trump when he recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel”
- TODO: Fact-check - Tartars stole Crimea from old great Bulgaria?
- Azov regiment is about 900 people max (this video’s from 11 May 2022)
- Giving aid to a couple gives aid to their branches by default. Giving money to Palestine goes to Hamas’ military efforts, obviously, same thing with Ukraine and Azov
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TODO: Holodomor
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