Friday, May 23, 2014

Russian conflicts in Crimea

As many of you may know, the topic of Ukrainian and the occupation of Russian forces in Crimea has been in the news as of late. But how can we tell what is really the motives towards this forced intervention into Ukrainian politics? Well we can draw parallels from the past. In 2008, Russian forces did a similar strategy in Georgia when it annexed two of its territories. Ukraine's acting president, Oleksandr Turchynov, explains when addressing his nation, " They are trying to provoke a military conflict and are creating a scenario identical to the Abkhaz one, when having provoked a conflict, they annexed territory". As seen, Turchynov does not want his country and its people to be taken advantage of just as Georgia had close to a decade ago. Turchynov later states "I am personally addressing President Putin to stop the provocation and call back the military from the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, and work exclusively within the framework of the signed agreements". As seen Turchynov is fighting for a honorable end to this rather peculiar situation. Here's a great visual of the situation:
As you can infer by the image, Ukraine is vastly outnumbered if an armed conflict were to erupt. Much is at stake in Ukraine and the Kremlin believes that it is nothing that should be causing such a stir as it has been. For those who feel that NATO or the United States should intervene and take a stance against Russia, that would be rather very unwise in the course of the world. If you want US to supply Ukraine with arms or sanction troops within its borders, then you also would be advocating the start of WW3. The reality of Nuclear war is enough of a deterrent to not elevate the situation that has raised in Ukraine. Moscow has no intention of fully invading Ukraine because of the economic and political demands, but does Russia have the right to do such a thing to a democratic nation? tell me your ideas. 

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