“It” meaning Crimea? It was never ceded. Still part of Ukraine officially.

They didn’t cede land back then either, it got taken over.

They DID go the way of the tyrant a few times. And when they had a democracy they were a slave society that headed up an “alliance” of city-states that was essentially an empire and protection racket. Athens is cool and all but deeply flawed too.

Escroc Monsieur