Russia Calls Obama's Comment on Crimea 'Rational'
Most Americans have no idea about the history between Ukraine and Russia and how the U.S. meddled in their relationship
Barack Obama, the former U.S. president, explained some of the history between Russia and Ukraine — stating that there was a reason that Moscow did not have to invade the peninsula.
“There’s a reason there was not an armed invasion of Crimea, because Crimea was full of a lot of Russian speakers and there was some sympathy to the views that Russia was representing.”
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, was asked about Obama’s comments and said, “from time to time such rational thinking finds its way out [in the US],” RT, the Russian outlet, reported.
“There was indeed a sufficiently large faction of politicians who supported the idea of developing good relations with Russia [and] who spoke out against Russophobia being imposed,” he added.
The Biden administration has identified Crimea as a legitimate target for Ukraine.
Victoria “Fuck the EU” Nuland, who was a major player in the U.S.-led coup in Ukraine back in 2014, said in February that the U.S. supported Ukrainian strikes on these targets because Washington believes Kyiv is “owed and due all of their territory within their international borders,” which she said included Crimea.
“Ukraine is not going to be safe unless Crimea is—at a minimum, at a minimum—demilitarized,” she said. “Russia has turned Crimea into a massive military installation…those are legitimate targets, Ukraine is hitting them, and we are supporting that.”
TRENDPOST: Russia did not attack Crimea in 2014.
The Russian military already had a presence there. Under a lease agreement (which did not expire until 2047), negotiated when Russia granted independence to Ukraine, its Black Sea Fleet is based at Sevastopol port in Crimea.
Furthermore, Crimea would likely still be a part of Ukraine if the U.S. had not orchestrated a coup to overthrow the government of the democratically elected president of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.
It was Crimean’s who voted overwhelmingly—by 95 percent—to rejoin Russia, but it is internationally recognized as Ukrainian territory.
The Kremlin sees Crimea as theirs.
Crimea had been part of Ukraine only since 1954, when Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, a Ukrainian, designated it as such. In fact, Crimea has been part of Russia longer than the United States has been a country.