Kaliningrad was a casualty of WWII, where the German population was expelled. Europe has changed borders many times, given what the SU suffered at the hands of the Germans, hardly a catastrophic price to pay. The US maintains a base a Guantanmo which despite Cuban protests will likely never give  up. Given the US history vis a vis Native American treaty obligations, you hardly have any place to debate Crimea’s place in Russian history or it’s “ownership”. Ethnic Russians vastly outnumber any other group.

“Poland, the Baltic states, the former Warsaw Pact nations, and Balkan states have endured Russian military intervention following Soviet usurpation.”

Is this supposed to mean something? Those same states endured German military intervention following Third Reich usurpation. Gee, I wonder which was worse, I also wonder what that has to do with TODAY!

to be continued...