Russian lawmakers authorize Putin to use military force outside the country, Part II

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I mean, if we're going to look at the laws of Duckburg, Calisota, I might as well bring up Carl Barks' The Golden Helmet where possessing a certain helmet of Eric the Red means that under International Law you are the rightful owner of North America.  If you have a sneaky enough attorney, of course.  A great story about how power corrupts (but even Don Rosa, who is pretty comfortable continuing a 1950s vibe, felt the need to back off a little in his sequel and actually mention the people in North America first).

But like... a good 50% of the argument of why Ukraine belongs to Russia is that Vladimir, who was actually a Viking called Valdemar, was baptized in Kyiv in the 980s and therefore the land of the Russian Orthodox is naturally all theirs.  Which is pressing a Viking claim from centuries earlier than the Vinland expedition, and like The Golden Helmet being claimed by people who had fuckall to do with anyone involved in that history.  And there's a good reason why Moscovites didn't have much to do with it: