Ukrainska Pravda — Monday, 1 August 2022, 22:35
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the reaction to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014 was "weak and insufficiently principled".
Details: Volodymyr Zelenskyy mentioned his conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron and stated that he invited the French President to participate in the online summit of the Crimea Platform, which will take place shortly.
Quote: "Last year, we created the Crimea Platform and are developing this initiative despite all the tangible threats and diplomatic opposition from Russia. During these years of occupation, Russia has turned Crimea into a large military prison camp, and tens of thousands of people became its victims."
"Crimea became a bridgehead for attacks on the free territory of our country. The weak and insufficiently principled reaction to the occupation of Crimea in 2014 and in the following years became one of the prerequisites for Russian aggression to reach such a scale as now."
"We will gradually restore justice regarding our Crimea."
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great_apple on August 2nd, 2022 at 07:04 UTC »
He's absolutely right. Not only the reaction to Crimea, but to Georgia, to killing people with chemical weapons on European soil, to meddling in Western elections...
The West was too in love with Russian oil and gas to take any stance harsher than some mild sanctions. We denied Ukraine entry into NATO while still asking them to host NATO war games on their soil, knowing it would piss Russia off. So Putin tried to sanction-proof Russia for a few years then invaded Ukraine, expecting more of the same response he's been getting for decades.
We absolutely should've had a stronger response to all of his previous bullshit, we put Ukraine in this dangerous situation encouraging them to move towards democracy while denying them any real protection (including refusing to sell them any weapons other than some javelins and drones) and now we owe it to them to keep supplying them whatever they need to win the war.
nixon469 on August 2nd, 2022 at 06:22 UTC »
Huh that sounds familiar, I wonder if similar things in recent political history have occurred in similar fashion… maybe involving another rogue authoritarian state with a cult of personality dictator.
wordholes on August 2nd, 2022 at 05:31 UTC »
Putin got emboldened to think he could take over an entire nation, and now he thinks he's putting together a new world order. His laptog in March;
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-china-lavrov-visit-beijing-vladimir-putin-xi-jinping-new-world-order/
James Bond movies are not supposed to be instruction manuals.