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Yeah, the sheer amount of countries the U.S. and Co. have destabilised is astounding.

Blair and Bush waddling into Iraq and Afghanistan for an illegal and pointless war that replaced Hussein with something far worse, 20 years of bloodshed from innocent civilians caught up in it in the afflicted countries as well as retaliatory terror attacks abroad, however many thousands on both sides that have died fighting a pointless war.

Then going back you’ve got Panama/Guatemala/Iran/Venezuela/Vietnam and probably plenty others I’ve missed where the U.S. has either tried or successfully destabilised the existing government worth something that’s often far worse.

You’re right though, Crimea used to be Russian and the fact that a lot of ethnic Russians still reside there was one of the reasons cited as justification for the annexation. If you’re interested, Tim Marshall did a great book that covered this (main focus is geopolitics and problems in the world today that exist because of artificial borders like in the Middle East, East/West tensions, rise of China as a superpower and the outward pressure its exerting in SEA, Pakistan/Indian tensions and of course plenty on the U.S. Highly recommend it if you want to get more clued in, his writing style is brilliant as well).

As for Trump, I was referring to the election meddling. Russians saw an opportunity and took it. Same with Brexit.

There's a fantastic book about that called Prisoners of Geography.