Originally Posted by
highflyer40
But should war BE avoided? Russia has invaded a sovereign country. Surely it should be that countries moral obligation to do everything they can to reunite and retake their country?
You can listen to the arguments about how these people are ethnic Russians. But that doesn’t hold water. If they want to be Russian they can move to Russia. Taking the Crimea as a case in point, only 60% of the population were ethnic Russians, and only about 60-70% of those supported annexation so less than half the region wanted this.
War should always be avoided. It is the last resort, when everything else has failed.
I think your percentages are bit off, in the long run, the better check would be to see what the population of Crimea have to say today. After several years back with the Federation.