If
the March 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia was based upon the
overwhelming desire by Crimeans that Crimea become again a part
of Russia such as Crimea had been until 1954, instead of upon Russia’s
‘conquest’ of Crimea such as Obama has charged, then the economic
sanctions that Obama placed against Russia on the basis of that
annexation is on false ground, and has no authentic justification in law
or in fact. Also, in that case, NATO's subsequent military
buildup against Russia, purportedly to protect NATO against ‘another
such conquest by Russia’, would be based upon this same lie:
the lie that Crimea’s becoming again a part of Russia was something
other than a legitimate carrying-out of any people’s sovereign right, of
self-determination of peoples — a right that the West recognizes for
Catalonians in Spain, and for Scotch in UK, but not for Crimeans in
Ukraine. Consequently, essential to addressing this crucial matter is
forthrightly to address misrepresentations that are commonly asserted
regarding it, and also to address in a credible way what the motivations
might be for any such commonly asserted misrepresentations of this
historically crucial matter. In other words, an unusually frank
discussion is necessary here, which does not mince words where outright
lies have been stated and become widespread in the West, and which
instead presents the facts that stand forth the most clearly upon the
basis of the evidence that is of the very highest reliability and
credibility concerning each respective point in question in the matter.
The most reliable evidence is presented here, and is consistently in
favor of the Russian position, and against The West's (the U.S. and its
allies) position, on this crucial, even mega-historical, issue.
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