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Why did Crimea’s parliament agree to join Ukraine?
The other two answer already hint at that but maybe one should mention the distinction explicitly:
Apparently the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is a union of Soviet Socialist Republics (...
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Why did Crimea’s parliament agree to join Ukraine?
The 1991 referendum was definitely an independence referendum. As the Wikipedia article on it says:
The referendum did not just call for the restoration for the ASSR, but
further called for Crimea to ...
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Why did Crimea’s parliament agree to join Ukraine?
The quoted text and the Wikipage page you linked to do not seem to agree on the meaning of the referendum, and the book (and your question) are definitely wrong on "Crimea joining Ukraine" ...
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Why did Crimea’s parliament agree to join Ukraine?
Autonomous_Soviet_Socialist_Republics (ASSRs) belong to Soviet Republics (SSRs). There is no precedent that I know of that an ASSR would be a top-level entity within USSR.
So what they've voted in is ...
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Why is Ukraine's conscription age (still) so high (25)?
You've received a lot of perfectly reasonable answers, and I am not sure which decision period you are referring to, but recently another reason might have been related with a possibility of freezing ...
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Why does the Ukrainian government fund and tolerate Far-Right extremist, despite being liberal?
People are not exactly lining up to die for liberal cause. The whole trope of liberal worldview is about attaining individual goals in this world, which is not conductive with dying for a cause.
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Why does the Ukrainian government fund and tolerate Far-Right extremist, despite being liberal?
Two reasons.
First, they are trying to marshal the entire forces of the liberal-controlled West, and therefore benefit from to presenting themselves within the usual liberal norms.
Second, they need ...
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Why is Ukraine's conscription age (still) so high (25)?
FWTW:
Dmytro Lytvyn, President Volodymyr Zelensky’s communications adviser, responded to recent calls for Kyiv to lower the conscription age from 25 to 18 by saying that there are not enough weapons ...
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Why is Ukraine's conscription age (still) so high (25)?
The problem is indeed lack of forces on the front lines. But lowering the so-called age limit of mobilization is not the solution.
The perception of a high age limit is not due to a hard limit. It is ...
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Why is Ukraine's conscription age (still) so high (25)?
You are confusing conscription and mobilization. These are different things.
The purpose of conscription is basic military training, after which young men are counted as an army reserve. Training is ...
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Why is Ukraine's conscription age (still) so high (25)?
You can find an explanation for this if you look up articles from the time Ukraine lowered its conscription age.
Per AP
Conscription has been a sensitive matter amid Ukraine’s growing shortages of ...
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What, if any, reactions have governments had to the US sending anti-personnel mines to Ukraine?
It is being discussed. The Anti-Personnel Mine Ban convention meanwhile has issued the following statement:
26 November 2024: Statement Regarding the Possible Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines to a ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
It's difficult to fully perceive the comparison.
The short story of the 1962 Missile Crisis was that the US had installed nuclear missiles in Turkey (a NATO member) in 1961, to target the Soviet Union....
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
I'd say the first of the fundamental differences is that ultimately the US didn't force Cuba to do more than give ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
They are pretty much unrelated.
So first of all the Cuban missile crisis happened (~60 years ago) in the context of the cold war. Which at least superficially was an ideological and military conflict ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
Let's start with similarities first: Cuba and Ukraine both had recently changed regimes, going from US aligned to USSR aligned in Cuba and from Russia aligned to US/NATO aligned in Ukraine. Both these ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
They are very, very, unrelated.
1962 Cuba was a nuclear crisis in which the US sought to stop the establishment of nearby Soviet nuclear missile bases (akin to those deployed by the US itself in ...
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What is the fundamental difference between the Cuban Missile Crisis and Ukraine 2022?
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a defensive move by the USSR. The USSR placed missiles in Cuba primarily to counter U.S. missiles stationed in Turkey and Italy, which threatened Soviet territory. This ...
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Is it possible for Ukraine to hold the parliamentary election in 2023 while in a state of war?
Parliamentary elections are prohibited while under martial law
Ukraine has been in a state of martial law since February 2022. Under Ukrainian law, neither elections for the President of Ukraine nor ...
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The moment of weapon ownership transfer
Israel attacks "weapon supply convoys for Hezbollah" anywhere without consequences
Not anywhere. In weak countries like Syria. Which even Russia only kinda helps. Also, Syria does complain ...
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The moment of weapon ownership transfer
But when and where exactly is this moment?
The weapons are considered Ukraine's when the Ukrainian military has the weapons in their possession and can use them in military operations.
Weapons kept ...
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The moment of weapon ownership transfer
In war, the law is really whatever the combatants or the victors say it is.
Russia can hit anywhere it likes. If it wins, it will declare it followed the law. If it loses, the West will declare its ...
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The moment of weapon ownership transfer
That likely depends on the conditions negotiated in these transferal agreements.
Like there are agreements like "nuclear sharing" in which ownership and control does not fully go over to the ...
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Does Ukraine consider itself to be at war with North Korea?
North Korea did not send 10,000 soldiers to fight Ukraine.
North Korea did send 10,000 soldiers to defend Russia, if ukrainian soldiers entered Russia's Kursk oblast and suddenly discovered they are ...
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Does Ukraine consider itself to be at war with North Korea?
One could equally ask whether the US and the EU consider themselves in war with Russia - these take part by supplying weapons, training of troops, and financial support to Ukraine, but legally none of ...
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Does Ukraine consider itself to be at war with North Korea?
To my knowledge (and as of this date), neither Ukraine nor North Korea has declared war on the other.
Russia has a somewhat unusual military structure. Conscripted soldiers are not allowed to fight ...
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Exit strategies for the Ukraine war
The New York Times reports that JD Vance, Trump's vice president-elect, seems to favor an end of the war essentially cementing the status quo, with Ukraine conceding roughly the occupied territories ...
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