TheMysteriousStranger: Unsung_Hero: dionysusaur: TheMysteriousStranger: LordBeavis: FTFA-Much of Putin's political legitimacy derives from the illegal annexation of the peninsula in 2014, after which his popularity surged.

This is why the general populace of Russia can go get farked.  Do you think Biden's popularity would surge when if we annexed Nova Scotia?  Seriously, what kind of POS cheers when their country illegally takes part of another, free country?

Fifty-four fourty or fight.

Or Hawaii
And what we took from the other indigenous nations.

While it's rather convenient for the conquerors, a line does have to be drawn in history beyond which you stop trying to settle grievances.  The state version of a statute of limitations.  I figure once nobody's alive who remembers talking to anyone who was alive (and old enough to know what was going on) during the original offense, that's probably where it should end.  Say, from the start of a generation to the death of the third.  When all the grandchildren have died, perhaps a little over a hundred years.

I'm not going to disagree with that we can't reverse thousands of years of invasions and annexations and instead just need to stop the cycle on the here and now. The point of my 54°40' comment was that we can't simply declare everyone in a country which crowds cheer aggression to be all p.o.s. without confronting the reality that American crowds have cheered naked aggression against other nations many times. And ditto for most every nation on the planet. The choice is between declaring humanity to be a pieces of shiat or to attempt to be more nuanced.