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[Sergarr]

Change that couple decades into the last two centuries. Sebastopol was the nexus of the Russian Empire's heydey of expansionism - that long forgotten period of time following the Napoleonic wars where Russia was considered the police of Europe, the hammer that was supposed to drop on any great power that got too big for its britches. Unfortunately for Russia and the Concert of Europe, the French and British decided to take the opportunity to show Russia who the real Empires were in the Crimean War, setting the stage for the first world war...
It's sad, really. It's a clearly Russian city, chock full of Russians and Russian history. But because of moronic communist land swaps (oh, how they loved to make sure ethnically unified territories didn't exist back in the USSR. It made it very hard to imagine revolt if your neighbour didn't speak your language or follow your faith) it wound up in the Ukraine, when they should have just been building a bridge.

I think the Crimean Tatars who have lived there for around 1000 years, rather than the past 200, have a rather different concept of whom Sevastopol belongs to. For as long as they remain in Crimea I will never recognise it as a Russian territory.

This looks exploitable. *cue evil laugh*

Anywaaaay, I think I've expended my stock of evilness for today; gotta go sleep to recharge that evilness. Can't feel truly Russian without a replenished evil meter!

[Darvi]

Your self-awareness is refreshing. I wish our world leaders were more like that.

[Helgoland]

Silly Darvi, Merkel doesn't sleep! She waits.

[Darvi]

Germany confirmed for being run by Chuck Norris.

[Comrade P.]

Silly Darvi, Merkel doesn't sleep! She waits.

Like that joke about Putin, Obama, Merkel and submarines. Waiting.

[Knit tie]

Silly Darvi, Merkel doesn't sleep! She waits.

My ruler is better than your ruler! While Merkel waits, Putin works tirelessly to improve the lives of his people!

And Sergarr's right - if kebab prevents Crimea from being Russian, then all we need to do is remove kebab!

[FearfulJesuit]

Novorossiyan artillery is guided by God.

[Helgoland]

Silly Darvi, Merkel doesn't sleep! She waits.

My ruler is better than your ruler! While Merkel waits, Putin works tirelessly to improve the lives of his people!

Now I want a picture of Putin as a bee and Merkel as a venus flytrap...

[Knit tie]

Novorossiyan artillery is guided by God.

And their Chechen ally artillery is guided by Allah and his prophet Kadyrov!

Silly Darvi, Merkel doesn't sleep! She waits.

My ruler is better than your ruler! While Merkel waits, Putin works tirelessly to improve the lives of his people!

Now I want a picture of Putin as a bee and Merkel as a venus flytrap...

Putin builds housing and makes food, while Merkel just sits in one place and eats dirt!

[Sheb]

Also Putin randomly sting people. Why Merkel dissolved them into gastric acid.

[Helgoland]

But Knit, Merkel is properly ecological and CO₂-neutral while Putin is part of a repressive and authoritarian regimes that regularly purges the drones it no longer has need for!

[Darvi]

Random stinging sounds more like wasps. which, given that Putin hasn't died yet, makes more sense.

[Descan]

On the other hand, we have more use for bees than venus fly traps, so... uhm... What does that imply?

[Darvi]

I find Venus flytraps make for better pets.

[Knit tie]

On the other hand, we have more use for bees than venus fly traps, so... uhm... What does that imply?

That Putin is better than Merkel, obviously.