Because they weren’t based in a country trying to join NATO during those 30 years. Until the maiden coup they were very close.
Imagine if China managed to orchestrate a coup in Scotland. Do you expect the British wouldn’t attempt to secure their nuclear submarine bases on the coast near Glasgow?
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You understand the chronology.
BTW, even Western-based polling consistently showed the clear majority of Crimeans supported the referendum.
The war in the Donbass was also discrete from Crimea (where there was never armed conflict).
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Watch (at least) the first fifteen and a half minutes (the introduction).
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Oh yeah China totally fell apart and that is why they manufacture everything you own today.
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Let’s be honest, they were hardly going to leave their nuclear submarine bases in the hands of a hostile government, were they…
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Because they weren’t based in a country trying to join NATO during those 30 years. Until the maiden coup they were very close.
Imagine if China managed to orchestrate a coup in Scotland. Do you expect the British wouldn’t attempt to secure their nuclear submarine bases on the coast near Glasgow?
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