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RE: If voting made a difference, they'd make it illegal... Wait.
Crimea held a referendum to decide the future of their country. Although the intent was different in the two cases, the reaction of the ruling governments was the same: they deemed it illegal.
Have you checked your facts? Wasn't the Crimea referendum held AFTER the annexation from Ukraine, when it was defacto under the Russian government rule, the Russian troops on the streets? And the ruling government deemed it illegal?
I know it's Steemit, not NY Times, so anything goes, but... Thank you for reading my comment.
You're right. Russia had already occupied Crimea before the referendum took place. However, I'm referring to the de jure government that claimed sovereignty over the territory, not the de facto government that was empirically in charge. This doesn't change my argument: the government that supposedly should have had jurisdiction over Crimea deemed both the referendum and the Russian occupation illegal.
Thanks again for engaging!