Eric Zuesse An obliquely-written news-report in the New York Times on January 18th headlined “U.S. Warms to Helping Ukraine Target Crimea” and subheaded “The Biden administration is considering the argument that Kyiv needs the power to strike at the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014.” It reported that, “the Biden administration is finally starting
I refuse to accept the results of a clearly fraudulent referendum. I was incorrect on the official result: 97% in favor with a 83% turnout. That’s pure nonsense. It smacks of someone who was like “Eh… 100% is probably too extreme, we should smack a few percentage points off.” Do you actually believe that? Crimea may be legitimately in favor of being part of Russia. I don’t know. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the referendum was invalid.
Your opinion on the validity of the referendum notwithstanding, it is an undeniable fact that vast majority of people in Crimea would prefer to be part of Russia. Given that is the case then it very clearly does make sense for Crimea to be part of Russia. On what possible basis could you argue that Crimea should be subjugated by Ukrainian nationalist against the will of the people of Crimea?
I might be much more willing to accept that if any sort of valid process was followed and if the results didn’t stink of a rigged election. I think it’s completely legitimate to demand that the peace process includes certain guarantees on the part of Kiev. I know that a feeling of neglect, abuse, and internal rivalry had been an issue for years. Those are solvable problems. They’re not problems that should ever have been solved by an invasion or mock election.
Your own source clearly shows that vast majority of people in Crimea were in favor of this. What you keep dancing around here is that the west did a color revolution in Ukraine that overthrew the legitimate democratically elected government and replaced it with right wing nationalists. It’s absolute clown shit for you to claim that you care about some legitimate process while ignoring that.
Your own source clearly shows that vast majority of people in Crimea were in favor of this.
Maybe they were, and they clearly deserved a better central government than they were provided. But if that was the case, they could have held a legitimate referendum on their own.
What you keep dancing around here is that the west did a color revolution in Ukraine
Whenever I ask for or try to find proof of that, all that I ever see is a single conversation that very much does not provide evidence that the West did anything of the sort. They were at most involved in some king making in the stability that followed the Euromaiden revolution. It feels like more of the typical “all anti-(Chinese/Russian/communist) sentiment is faked”. It’s just really sad that you’re completely denying the agency of millions and millions of people because you hate the US.
Maybe they were, and they clearly deserved a better central government than they were provided. But if that was the case, they could have held a legitimate referendum on their own.
Except that Ukraine did not afford them the opportunity to do that. They literally were not given an option to hold a referendum on their own.
Whenever I ask for or try to find proof of that, all that I ever see is a single conversation that very much does not provide evidence that the West did anything of the sort.
I’ve repeatedly provided you with detailed references to this in many prior conversations. The west was actively involved in funding the coup and selecting the government afterwards. Plenty of western sources document these events. Meanwhile, you’re the one who is actually denying agency of people in Donbas and Crimea who rebelled against the nationalist regime in western Ukraine because you hate Russia. Stop projecting please.
I’ve provided you with detailed population breakdowns in Ukraine before that clearly show that people in the east and west have wildly different views and identities. You try to homogenize the people of Ukraine to make your inarrative work.
I refuse to accept the results of a clearly fraudulent referendum. I was incorrect on the official result: 97% in favor with a 83% turnout. That’s pure nonsense. It smacks of someone who was like “Eh… 100% is probably too extreme, we should smack a few percentage points off.” Do you actually believe that? Crimea may be legitimately in favor of being part of Russia. I don’t know. But it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that the referendum was invalid.
Your opinion on the validity of the referendum notwithstanding, it is an undeniable fact that vast majority of people in Crimea would prefer to be part of Russia. Given that is the case then it very clearly does make sense for Crimea to be part of Russia. On what possible basis could you argue that Crimea should be subjugated by Ukrainian nationalist against the will of the people of Crimea?
I might be much more willing to accept that if any sort of valid process was followed and if the results didn’t stink of a rigged election. I think it’s completely legitimate to demand that the peace process includes certain guarantees on the part of Kiev. I know that a feeling of neglect, abuse, and internal rivalry had been an issue for years. Those are solvable problems. They’re not problems that should ever have been solved by an invasion or mock election.
Your own source clearly shows that vast majority of people in Crimea were in favor of this. What you keep dancing around here is that the west did a color revolution in Ukraine that overthrew the legitimate democratically elected government and replaced it with right wing nationalists. It’s absolute clown shit for you to claim that you care about some legitimate process while ignoring that.
Maybe they were, and they clearly deserved a better central government than they were provided. But if that was the case, they could have held a legitimate referendum on their own.
Whenever I ask for or try to find proof of that, all that I ever see is a single conversation that very much does not provide evidence that the West did anything of the sort. They were at most involved in some king making in the stability that followed the Euromaiden revolution. It feels like more of the typical “all anti-(Chinese/Russian/communist) sentiment is faked”. It’s just really sad that you’re completely denying the agency of millions and millions of people because you hate the US.
Except that Ukraine did not afford them the opportunity to do that. They literally were not given an option to hold a referendum on their own.
I’ve repeatedly provided you with detailed references to this in many prior conversations. The west was actively involved in funding the coup and selecting the government afterwards. Plenty of western sources document these events. Meanwhile, you’re the one who is actually denying agency of people in Donbas and Crimea who rebelled against the nationalist regime in western Ukraine because you hate Russia. Stop projecting please.
I’ve provided you with detailed population breakdowns in Ukraine before that clearly show that people in the east and west have wildly different views and identities. You try to homogenize the people of Ukraine to make your inarrative work.
Watch this video that CNN broadcast about what the regime you support was doing to people of Donetsk back in 2014. This is what you stand for. https://twitter.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296
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