I replied to a guy who said Musk turned off Starlink in Crimea. Which is false. If we are not talking about that then I don't know what we're talking about.

> That's objectively just not true at all.

I'll clarify. For the purposes of doing business there no one cares if it's legally Ukraine.

> Of course, you can always find people who say something wildly at odds with the overwhelming international consensus

Yes I can find a Crimea full of them and probably half the world at large who will say it is legally Russia now.

I properly talked to one Crimean only in my life and he voted for Russia in referendum. he said most people did because higher salary etc. When war began he left the country tho. Maybe he realized his mistake but probably just didn't want to get killed.

International consensus is fluid and ephemeral (maybe even precisely because people like putler)

If we are not talking about that then I don't know what we're talking about.

My assumption was it was simply the context I chimed in on -- in regard to the region's sovereignty status and the bogus 2014 referendum.

Will hopefully get to the other stuff later. But just to get that squared away for now.