civil war broke out because maidan was a literal coup that did not have majority support. also let's be real, the vast majority of maidan ukrainians only cared so they could get a easy free movement way of fucking off out of ukraine, hence when the association agreement was eventually signed, millions fucked off. crimea was never truly ukraine, it's not a historical area of ukraine, nor did the population see themselves as ukrainian. the 1990s vote was only due to the fact crimea itself couldn't be the last fucking one standing as the sole area of the ussr after russia and belarus and the rest of the soviet republics already bailed, the earlier pre-yeltisn coup referendum had crimea as extremely pro-soviet. crimea had always voted to be independent or join russia through most of the 1990s and 2000s. sure "fuck the crimeans, live with it" but at the same time then, the west should shut the fuck about kosovo or xinjiang or tibet.
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