should canada have merely abandoned the red areas?
no, we should have sent the army in to occupy them, and if quebec wanted to fight back, we should have told them to go ahead and try.
i cannot understand how our government doesn't see the parallel or the precedent in international law that it is trying to advance when it's so glaringly obvious.
but, the west only uses international law when it's convenient. when it's not convenient, it just fills the airwaves with lies, and tells them to you with a straight face and a shit-eating grin. we'd be supporting any breakaway region from russia we could find, even if it was led by a nazi dictator, against the will of the populace. and, we'd call it "democracy" when we did.