Crimea: Whose land is this? Part 2 - Opinion - Al Jazeera English
Crimea
is by far not the first entity - and won't be the last - to achieve
independence in this way. In the past, the US broke off the British
Empire, while Kosovo just recently left the borders of Serbia. It is in
this manner that many achieved their independence, whether Abkhazia,
Algeria, Nagorno-Karabakh, East Timor, South Ossetia, Czechoslovakia
(which split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia), and maybe soon
Scotland (due to hold its own independence referendum).
The US domino theory holds that if the
US lets go of just one country from their orbit of influence, then the
whole world would instantly fall apart, writes Khrushchev [EPA]
