Not Crimea is an obstacle to the end of the war. And the aggressive plans of Vladimir Putin
"The unwavering claims to Crimea illustrate the insoluble conflict, and it is difficult to imagine that the struggle for the peninsula will be resolved without further bloodshed," - says the newspaper Francesca Abel.
And with her approach, maybe other authors of the texts in the well -known Western editions, who are thinking about the issue of Ukraine's refusal to Crimea, or at least a willingness to postpone the solution of the occupation of the peninsula in a long box will allow to stop the war. But it is a political logic that was destroyed on February 24, 2022, and one can only wonder that we are back to it again.
In the recent response of the Russian Presidential President Dmitry Peskov, the proposal of President Vladimir Zelensky to start withdrawing Russian troops from the occupied Ukrainian territories, it is explicitly said that Ukraine should take into account new realities - name The territory of the Russian Federation. As we can see, the Crimea does not even mention the Russian Presidential President. For him, as well as for his chief Vladimir Putin, Crimea is a long -resolved question.
But it seems not only Crimea. Prior to Russia's attack on Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Crimea could be considered a "sacred territory" for the Kremlin regime and the exception of the rules of Russian crisis management. In fact, neither before nor after 2014, Russia has never resorted to the annexation of other people's territories.
Even in 2008, the independence of Georgian autonomies - Abkhazia and South Ossetia - was a completely new approach to relations with the former Soviet republics and territories that announced their unrecognized sovereignty. By this time, the Kremlin has given preference to the informal nature of contacts with self -proclaimed republics. Actually, with Transnistria, this level of relationships is still maintained. 2014 demonstrated that Putin could also go to the annexation of another's territory.
However, then he, and many in Russia, in Ukraine, and in the West, explained such an unusual aggressive approach that undermines the very essence of international law, the "sacredness" of Crimea and the special attitude of the Russians to the peninsula - however, it should be recognized that This special attitude was created and warmed by Russian propaganda for decades and even centuries. However, in Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson or Zaporizhzhya region, no "sacred" is no longer observed.
The Kremlin, certainly, simply annexed what was able to occupy - no more. If other Ukrainian regions were occupied, then "referendums" would be held there, and these territories would also be annexed. Therefore, now there is no "sacred" of Crimea - this myth is actually offset by the next aggressive steps of Vladimir Putin. And so, certainly, one should not assume that Crimea is an obstacle to the end of the war.