What the U.S. and the rest of NATO is seeing right now Blinken said, is very similar to what they saw right before the Russian invasion of Ukraine back in 2014 when they annexed Crimea.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo clearly and unequivocally rejected any possibility that the United States will accept Russia’s attempted annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula.
A public policy poll conducted back in 2016 found that only 28% of Marylanders favored annexing DC and a later 2019 Washington Post poll found that 57% of Marylanders opposed annexing DC full stop.