https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/96c82568-cc38-42c7-978f-292ca36b7d68 Support me on Patreon: https://patreon.com/BadEmpanada Taiwan is Taiwan and Crimea is Ukraine, it's that simple - or so the typical Western narrative tends to go. In reality, there is far more that must be considered in both of these cases than partisans for either side would like to admit. So let's explore the principle of self-determination and its modern problems through these two examples, along with others such as Palestine, the Falklands/Malvinas, Catalonia, and Scotland. Twitch stream: https://twitch.tv/BadEmpanada Follow my Instagram: https://instagram.com/BadEmpanada Become a member on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/BadEmpanada/join One-time donations/Support me on Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/BadEmpanada Second Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjY9R3_6sxfUViabj93Vnhw Sources: [1] https://www.worldcat.org/title/1007823334 [2] http://2001.ukrcensus.gov.ua/eng/results/general/nationality/Crimea/ [3]https://web.archive.org/web/20140317075919/http://www.razumkov.org.ua/eng/files/category_journal/NSD104_eng_2.pdf [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20140502000238/http://www.undp.crimea.ua/img/content/file/monitoring_ru_2009_10-12.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140415042714/http://www.undp.crimea.ua/img/content/file/monitoring_ru_2010_10-12.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20140502005021/http://www.undp.crimea.ua/img/content/Strategy%20Implementation%20Monitoring%20Report%20%28October%20to%20December%202011%29%285%29.pdf [5] http://avaazpress.s3.amazonaws.com/558_Crimea.Referendum.Poll.GfK.pdf [6] https://web.archive.org/web/20150923183045/http://www.bbg.gov/wp-content/media/2014/06/Ukraine-research-brief.pdf [7] https://www.usagm.gov/wp-content/media/2014/06/Ukraine-slide-deck.pdf [8] https://www.voanews.com/a/gallup-poll-shows-wide-political-split-in-ukraine/1930867.html [9] https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2014/05/08/despite-concerns-about-governance-ukrainians-want-to-remain-one-country/ [10] https://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/GFK_report_FreeCrimea.pdf [11] https://web.archive.org/web/20190224203617/https://www.zois-berlin.de/fileadmin/media/Dateien/ZOiS_Reports/ZOiS_Report_3_2017.pdf [12] https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2021/11/21/2003768230 [13] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y18-07g39g / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We1IvUe6KLo [14] https://web.archive.org/web/20151027034258/http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-02-06/one-year-later-crimeans-prefer-russia [15] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_rul_rule130 [16] https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v2_cou_us_rule101 [17] Crimea and the Russian-Ukrainian Conflict, Anton Bebler. [18] The Falklands/Malvinas Case, Roberto C. Laver. [19] The British Reoccupation and Colonization of the Falkland Islands, or Malvinas, 1832–1843, B. M Gough. [20] http://www.fidc.co.fk/about-us/life-in-the-falkland-islands [21] https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/14/declassified-files-reveal-british-interest-in-falkland-islands-oil [22] Oil and the Falklands/Malvinas: oil companies, governments and Islanders, Grace Livingstone. [23] Revisiting the UNGA Partition Resolution, Walid Khalidi. [24] Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination, Allen Buchanan. [25] https://www.e-ir.info/2020/05/29/the-united-nations-self-determination-state-failure-and-secession/ #taiwan #russia #ukraine China ccp sovereignty crimea dispute war putin xi jinping Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:55:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/96c82568-cc38-42c7-978f-292ca36b7d68 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.