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* [https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/01/13/peace-ukraine-crimea-putin-00077746 Why Crimea Is the Key to Peace in Ukraine] | |||
* https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-crimea-disconnect | * https://snyder.substack.com/p/russias-crimea-disconnect | ||
Revision as of 00:17, 1 April 2023
“ Roth: Bernard Kouchner, the Foreign Minister of France, which now presides over the EU, recently expressed concern that a new conflict may break out in Ukraine, notably the Crimea and Sevastopol, a Russian naval base. Are the Crimea and Sevastopol the next target for Russia?
Putin: You said, “the next target”. We did not have a target in this conflict, so I think it is simply inappropriate to speak about some “next target”. This is my first point.
Roth: So you rule this out?
Putin: If you let me finish, you will be satisfied with my answer.
The Crimea is not a disputed territory. Unlike the case of Georgia and South Ossetia, there has been no ethnic conflict there.
Russia has long recognized the borders of today’s Ukraine. By and large, we have completed our talks on the border. Now we have to deal with the demarcation, but this is a technical issue.
I think that asking a question about Russia’s targets of this kind reeks of provocation.
There are complicated processes going on in society in the Crimea. There are problems of the Crimean Tatars, the Ukrainian population, the Russian population, the Slavic population in general, but this is Ukraine’s domestic political problem.
- “Khrushchev’s mistake” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1576969255031296000 Elon Musk
