The first Crimean War (1853-1856) opposed Russia of Tsar Nicolas I to the Ottoman Empire, supported by the French and the British. Despite their defeat, the Russians retained the territory conquered by Catherine II in 1783. He was subsequently transformed into Riviera, then transferred by Nikita Khrushchev to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine in 1954 – so that the peninsula belongs to this country when it accesses independence.
Today, Crimea is again at the heart of geopolitical tensions. In discussions to end the war in Ukraine, Russia requires that its sovereignty in this region annexed in 2014 to be recognized. Aligning on the position of Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump hammers that Crimea has been “lost for years” and that she will remain Russian.
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180 ° turn
This position diametrically contradicts the American line of the last eleven years – including during Trump’s first term. As the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, formally condemned the annexation. “The United States reaffirms its refusal to recognize the claims of sovereignty of the Kremlin in territories seized by force in violation of international law,” he insisted in a written declaration. Before adding that his country undertook to “maintain this policy until the territorial integrity of Ukraine is restored”.
-By validating the brutal strategy of Putin’s accomplished fait, like a few poorly recommendable states, such as North Korea of Kim Jong-un, the tenant of the White House drives one more nail in the coffin of the World Order of 1945.
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Her discussion with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky in the solemn frame of the Saint-Pierre Basilica in Rome, on the occasion of Pope Francis’ funeral, has she since illuminated and changed his mind? Trump, who wants to quickly signed a “permanent” ceasefire, wondered his Return from Italy if Putin, who continues her strikes against Ukraine, was not “walking” it.
However, it would take a miracle for his stay to the Vatican gave birth to compassion for kyiv, assaulted for more than three years by the Russian forces, but that he accuses of being at the origin of the war. During his invested speech, on January 20, the billionaire said that God had “saved” him so that he “returned his greatness to America”. On the contrary, it risks losing it if force prevails over international law.
