Redolent of old great power thinking, Trump’s Crimea giveaway could usher a return to international lawlessness“Crimea will stay with Russia,” Donald Trump told Time magazine in a largely sympathetic profile on Friday. And with that statement, the US president made clear that he wanted to carve up another country, Ukraine, and so legitimise the forcible seizure of land made by Moscow 11 years ago.From reading the transcript of the interview, Trump’s thinking is hardly coherent. Crimea, he says, wouldn’t have been seized if he had been president in 2014, but “it was handed to them by Barack Hussein Obama” and now Crimea has “been with them [Russia] for a long time” – so it is time to accept the seizure. Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/25/a-carve-up-in-gift-wrapping-trumps-peace-plan-puts-the-sacrifice-on-ukraine
Author : Dan Sabbagh
Publish date : 2025-04-25 17:50:00
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A carve-up in gift wrapping: Trump’s peace plan puts the sacrifice on Ukraine
