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joshcryer

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14. What of the Tartars?
Fri Feb 28, 2014, 12:45 AM
Feb 2014

Who have very racial biases due to their treatment under a previous regime. Word is that they are arming themselves, too.

Is their agency to be ignored by the whims of these militias?

It seems unlikely the US will meddle beyond perhaps meager material assistance, given that American public opinion is tired of that crap. Drones and guns, a-OK, anything else, meh.

If anything it would play out like Abkhazia and South Ossetia, effectively overrun by Russian firepower and the minorities get the short end of the stick. You will note, btw, that the some 42% of ethnic Ukrainians and Tartars in Crimea voted decidedly against Svoboda:



And instead voted for the Communist Party:



These are people we'd agree with ideologically, who don't want the insecurity of a breakup.

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