Pathetic. If you think shaming people into supporting war-mongering is going to work, you've got another think coming.

John, are you writing from the trenches outside the former Bakhmut, or from the comfort of your writing chair?

Crimea was part of Russia for hundreds of years, then part of Ukraine but under Soviet rule for 70 years, then a special province under Ukrainian rule since 1991. The Russian naval base there was leased until 2042.

A 2013 US-based poll found a majority of people in Crimea leaned Russian and only a small minority (15%) identified as Ukrainian.

So why, precisely, not just theoretically, should I want to risk WWIII for Crimea?

I've been to Ukraine. I have friends who are now refugees from Ukraine. Yet I couldn't have identified any major towns in the Donbass up until Russia's invasion. Neither I nor my country of residence (Austria, part of the EU but not NATO) nor my country of birth and nationality (US) has any major business, nor political connections, with Ukraine and specifically not with the Donbass.

So why, precisely, not just theoretically, should I want to risk WWIII for the Donbass?