Crimea’s Bloody History
NBC just reported that high level talks in London to end the war in Ukraine foundered when Zelensky proclaimed he would never agree to a deal in which the U.S. officially recognized the Crimea as Russian territory.
Zelenskyy has consistently rejected the suggestion that his country give up its claim to the Crimean Peninsula.
“There’s nothing to talk about here,” he said at a media conference Tuesday. “This is against our constitution.”
A brief review of history reveals there is little historical basis for Zelensky’s claim. Demanding that Russia give up Crimea—home of its Sevastopol Naval Base since 1783—resembles the demand that the U.S. return the Hawaiian Islands (including its Pearl Harbor Naval Station) to an independent Hawaiian state.
After American agents deposed the Hawaiian monarch in 1893, the U.S. government annexed Hawaii in 1898—at the same time it snatched Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines from Spain.
In 1954, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet transferred administration of Crimea to the U
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