Trump-Trumpf's crime proposal endangers the global order

Trump-Trumpf's crime proposal endangers the global order

The statement by former US President Donald Trump that the Ukraine of Russia was supposed to recognize control over the Crimea has to destabilize the potential, international law and order. The Ukrainian President Wolodymyr Selenskyj has made it clear that this is a red line for him.

Selenskyj's clear position

"There is nothing to discuss. It violates our constitution," Selenskyj told reporters on Tuesday. Trump criticized this remark and accused Selenskyj to "make it so difficult to end this war". He described the Crimea as "lost years ago". In an interview with Time-Magazin, Trump repeated his position and explained that as part of his proposal to terminate the war, “The Crimea will remain at Russia. And Selenskyj understands that, and everyone knows that it has been like this for a long time.”

the legal implications

A possible acknowledgment of Russian sovereignty about the Crimea through the Trump administration would violate international law as well as several explanations and agreements that the United States, including the first Trump administration, had made. Sergey Vasiliev, an expert in international law and professor at Open University in the Netherlands, said: "In terms of international law, such an explanation would be zero and void." He pointed out that "territorial gains that arise from violence must not be recognized as legally recognized", a fundamental principles of international law.

The recognition of the Crimea as part of Russia would the Trump administration in conflict with the Budapester Bring Memorandum from 1994 in which the United States committed to respect the sovereignty and borders of Ukraine, in exchange for Kiev's waiver of his nuclear weapons. In 2018, Foreign Minister Mike Pompeo confirmed in a The refusal of the USA of the Kremlin to recognize to the Crimea.

The crisis in the Crimea began shortly after the mass protests in Ukraine in 2014, which plunged the Russian -supported regime of Viktor Yanukovich. While the land with the chaos of the Maidan-Proteste Fighted Russian soldiers who were civilians or in uniform Occurred (referred to as "little green men" at the time), outside of government buildings and military bases in the Crimea. Russia has been running an important naval base in the port city of Sewastopol for over 200 years. A dispute over this facility and the black sea fleet stationed there broke out between Kiev and Moscow after the collapse of the Soviet Union and was later regulated by a contract that provided that the Ukraine rented the base to Russia.

Russian military presence in the Crimea

While Russia played all participation in the "little green men" in the Crimea, only a few weeks after this secret operation, it held a fake referendum about accession to Russia. Putin later admitted that he had sent Russian troops there.

was Ukraine able to fight?

In his latest Tirade against Selenskyj, Trump asked: "Why didn't you fight for eleven years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot?" However, the truth is more complicated than Trump suggests. The Russian operation met Ukraine - and large parts of the world - completely surprising. Russia secretly strengthened its military presence for weeks before taking control and overwhelming Ukrainian forces.

the historical perspective

Moscow claims that the Crimea was always Russian, but that is not true. Before annexation, the Crimea was part of independent Ukraine, known as the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, the only self -managed region within uniform Ukraine. The peninsula voted in 1991 in a referendum for the independence of Ukraine. Before that, she was part of the Soviet Republic of Ukraine. The Crimea was part of Russia for more than 150 years after it was annexed by Katharina the Great in 1783 until it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954, but this period is compared to the long history of the Crimea, which up to 1000 BC. BC goes back, relatively short.

The current situation in the Crimea

In the past 11 years, Russia has built an increasingly brutal and repressive regime in the Crimea and against its population, report human rights observers. The UN human right to observe the right to observe the right in Ukraine has repeatedly reported on the alleged human rights violations that were committed by Russia in the occupied Crimea-from illegal arrests to sexual violence and torture, to the forced recruitment of children in Russian schools and training programs.

Russia has repeatedly denied the allegations of human rights violations, despite considerable evidence and testimony of victims. According to the official information from the Ukrainian government, More than 64,000 people since the annexation into other parts of Leave Ukraine. However, Crimean Ngos estimate that the number of refugees could even be twice as high, since not everyone has officially registered with the government. In the meantime, Moscow has pushed its plans to "Russifying" the peninsula, created incentives to move Russian citizens to resettlement to Crimea. The Ukrainian government estimated in 2023 that between 500,000 and 800,000 Russians have been permanently moving there, whereby the number after the opening of the Crimean Bridge, which connects Russia with the Crimea