Vladdy told me so
Buzzfeed’s Alberto Nardelli and Julia Ioffe report:
President Donald Trump told G7 leaders that Crimea is Russian because everyone who lives there speaks Russian, according to two diplomatic sources.
Trump made the remarks over dinner last Friday during a discussion on foreign affairs at the G7 summit in Quebec, Canada, one of the diplomats told BuzzFeed News.
Russia invaded and then annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, leading to widespread international condemnation and sanctions. It also directly led to Russia being kicked out of the then-G8. Russian President Vladimir Putin defended Russia’s intervention in Crimea at the time saying that he had the right to protect Russian citizens and Russian speakers in Ukraine.
Well, Putin says he and Trump chat on the phone regularly, so no doubt Trump gets his deep knowledge of what language people speak in Ukraine from the Pu-man himself – you know, the guy who annexed Ukraine and got Russia kicked out of the then-G8 as a result.
So by that reasoning, the US belongs to England?
No, TheoBromine, we don’t actually speak English here. It’s sort of similar to, based on, English, but…no English person I’ve ever personally known would call what we speak English.
Well, the Crimea is a warm water port isn’t it? Russia would have found some justification to recover it sooner or later.
iknklast,
Don’t take any notice. They’re just being English. They sneer at ‘colonial’ accents and they sneer at each other’s accents.
Yeah, RJW, the most venom I ever heard from my English friends was not USA English, it was Yorkshire.
@iknklast #2 – I don’t think I buy that. Those that speak it call it “English”, and the dialect is no more regionalised (but perhaps a bit less refined :-) than the variants spoken in, say, Yorkshire, Cornwall, Scotland, Northern Ireland, or even Essex.
I therefore look forward to Trump’s forthcoming capitulation of the US’s sovereignty to Her Majesty The Queen, the dissolution of the current US branches of government, and a Westminster-style parliamentary system to be formed in its stead.
Karellen, you can buy it or not buy it, for whatever it’s worth. I call it English; the English often don’t call it English, but American, and consider it something different from Yorkshire or whatever. Trump calls it English, so he (and I) should capitulate to the English, but if the English don’t call it English, maybe they don’t want us back.
I’m just reporting what my English friends say, not making something up. Thanks.