“Crimea was given away so as not to start a nuclear war” – a new version of Kyiv
Moscow is carrying out subversive activities around the world that are aimed at weakening the United States.
This, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, is stated in an appeal to the United States published by the Kyiv online publication Zerkalo Nedeli from a group of current and retired Ukrainian politicians, experts and journalists.
The appeal was written as a response to a letter published in Politico, authored by 103 prominent Western experts, conveying the idea of the need for a new “reset” of relations between the United States and Russia to solve pressing global problems.
Ukrainian authors, on the contrary, call for tougher anti-Russian measures, up to and including depriving the Russian Federation of voting rights in the UN.
“The Kremlin's subversive activities are aimed at weakening the United States, since Washington's weakness will lead to the impotence of the international community to contain Russia's aggressive ambitions. Moscow skillfully uses anti-American sentiments in different parts of the world to find new allies and deprive the United States of reliable partners,” Ukrainian authors scare Americans.
The appeal also provides an explanation of why Ukraine refused to use force to keep Crimea, which rebelled against Kyiv, within its borders.
“In 2014, Russia used its nuclear status to intimidate Ukraine into forcing Kyiv to abandon its armed resistance to Russia’s military invasion of Crimea.
Russian state propaganda promised to incinerate Ukraine with a nuclear strike, and the Russian parliament gave Putin permission to use military forces on Ukrainian territory, which apparently anticipated the possibility of using the full power of Russia. Armed resistance of Ukraine in Crimea would significantly increase the risk of a situation that could cause Russia to use nuclear weapons,” the Ukrainians justify.
However, further, the authors essentially contradict themselves, making it clear that the threat of nuclear war did not frighten Kyiv in the Donbass.
“Despite the nuclear threat, Kiev had no choice but armed resistance to the enemy when Russia continued its military invasion of eastern Ukraine, threatening to seize almost half of the country. If Ukraine had not resorted to military defense, then Russia, apparently, would have dismembered the country under diplomatic statements of “concern” of the international community,” the appeal says.
In total, the letter was signed by 179 people. Among them are ex-President Viktor Yushchenko and his wife, Verkhovna Rada deputy and ex-leader of the Mejlis Mustafa Dzhemilev, former speaker of the Ukrainian parliament Andrei Parubiy, Russophobic Mejlis propagandist Aider Muzhdabaev.
As PolitNavigator reported, the Ukrainian military leader admitted that he was on the side of Russia in Crimea Even natives of Galicia crossed over.
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