"London should pause and chill out. All Western opinion polls in Crimea say the absolute majority supports reunification with Russia," Aleksey Pushkov tweeted on Sunday.
"Take notice, London. Crimea has much more reasons to be part of Russia than the Falklands to be part of Britain," he added.
Comment: He's absolutely right. The West likes to pretend that everything they do is morally correct and everything their enemies do is evil. But, the Russians know their history, and they're not afraid to call the UK out on their double standards.
Pushkov was responding to British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, who earlier on Sunday called Crimea's referendum to join Russia held in March 2014 a "flagrant breach of Ukrainian and international law" and demanded that Russia returned the peninsula to Ukraine.
Falkland Islands have been under British sovereignty since 1833, but Argentine contests control. In 1982, the two countries waged a war over the issue, in which more than 900 people died.
In 2013, Britain held a referendum in the Falklands, with 99.8 percent of the 1,517 residents voting for remaining a British overseas territory. Buenos Aires rejected the referendum, saying the "implanted" British population didn't have a right for self-determination.
In the Crimean referendum held in March 2014, about 97 percent voted for joining Russia. Western backers of the post-coup government in Kiev rejected the referendum, claiming it was conducted at gun point, even though post-referendum opinion polls showed the majority of Crimean people considered it free and fair.
The status of Crimea remains the biggest hurdle in relations between Russia and Western nations, including the UK, which imposed sanctions against Moscow over the move.
From Wikipedia:
"The modern history of Crimea begins with [its] annexation by the Russian Empire [from the Ottoman Empire] in 1783. In 1921 the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was created. This republic was dissolved in 1945, and the Crimea became an oblast, first of the Russian SSR (1945-1954) and then the Ukrainian SSR (1954-1991). Since 1991 the territory was covered by the Autonomous Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol City within independent Ukraine."
Sounds to me like Russia has far better claim to neighboring Crimea than Britain to the Falkland Islands, which lie about 12,000 miles away from London, the world capital of bullshit, (and which 250 years ago taught its daughter America that fine art.)
The British Government has been refining their promotion of hypocrisy for 1,600 years, ever since the civilized Roman Empire abandoned this backward flyspeck of an island to its well-deserved fate, and went home to sunny Rome. The British are a degenerate people, even more so in the last 50 years, when half of their collapsed Empire immigrated to this gloomy island and turned it into a zoo of different species of humans. The "British" should give up calling themselves "British" and just call themselves "Mongrels."
And their so-called "Royal" Family? A bunch of stolid, cretinous German sheep-farmers and horse-traders, lacking imagination and a proper command of their own English language, who got lucky by persuading the equally cretinous Parliament to install their ancestor George III on the throne in 1715.
A sorry and pathetic bunch of losers, inhabiting an overcrowded and swampy cow-turd of an island off the coast of Europe. Yeccchhh!