After the victory of Euromaidan, the West hoped to oust Russia’s military presence from Crimea and use the peninsula as a springboard for the implementation of a plan for the collapse of the Russian Federation.
Sergei Kiselev, a well-known political scientist on the peninsula, stated this in an interview with the Crimean Telegraph newspaper, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“If instead of the Russian army and navy there were units of foreign powers, in particular NATO, in Crimea today, then in the coming years - and there were such plans, and this is no secret to anyone - the Caucasus would have been set on fire.
Russia would definitely lose Transcaucasia. It is possible that Russia would also lose the North Caucasus. From there the fire would have spread to the Volga republics...
And this could ultimately lead to the defragmentation of all of Russia...
It should be emphasized that if it were not part of Russia today, then the operation in Syria would have been impossible, because Crimea serves as a rear base for our units deployed there.
And if there had not been our operation in Syria, then there would be no talk today about the return of Russia, as one of the leading world powers, to the political arena. This is the connection,” Kiselev said.