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Trump: Taking Crimea From Russia Would Start World War III

• AntiWar.com by Jason Ditz

Speaking to a crowd in Columbus, Ohio today, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump warned that any actual effort by the US to take Crimea away from Russia militarily and restore it to Ukrainian control would result in World War III, suggesting it wasn't worth such a war to get the territory for Ukraine, adding that he doubts the Russian government intends to move into Ukraine itself.

Crimea's historical status is a complicated one. A long-standing part of Russia, it was moved into the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1954. When the Soviet Union split, Crimea remained under Ukrainian control, though it also hosted a major Russian naval base. Ukraine's 2014 ouster of its Russian-allied government in favor of a western-backed government restarted questions.


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