title: The End of Which War? Uncomfortable Legal and Historical Comparisons and Diagnoses
abstract: This chapter, written from a legal and historical perspective, contains the following. First, since the war started in 2014 with the illegal annexation of Crimea by Russia, some of the complex issues surrounding the history and fate of the peninsula are dissected. Second, an international law perspective is explored. Third, since Kant is so often presented as delusionary, his excoriation of British colonialism is referred to; he would write the same for Russian colonialism. Fourth, it is shown t