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[randmeerkat]

If the U.S. didn’t go to war over Crimea why would they go to war over this?

[xtracto → randmeerkat]

Because Crimea is another country/outside of usa jurisdiction? Whereas this is a direct attack to USA institutions/government.

[randmeerkat → xtracto]

This isn’t an attack _yet_. This is potentially a part of the process of developing the capabilities for a later attack.

Crimea is the first time a nation state has meaningfully changed its borders that I know of since WW2. As a result I would consider Crimea a much more egregious attack on American values and western interests than a software vulnerability that hasn’t been leveraged to cause actual harm.

[kens → randmeerkat]

> Crimea is the first time a nation state has meaningfully changed its borders that I know of since WW2.

I took a look out of curiosity, and there have been a lot more border changes in the world than I was expecting. Lots due to decolonization in Africa. The partition of India in 1947 was huge. Lots of European changes, of course. Many small border cleanups. The changes go on for page.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_border_change... (That page is since WWI, so skip to 1945.)