Posted on 12/06/2022 9:15:48 AM PST by elpadre
The U.S. seems to have changed its position with regards to Crimea.
Blinken in August 2022:
Secretary Antony Blinken @SecBlinken - 16:46 UTC · Aug 23, 2022 United States government official
In my remarks to the Crimea Platform Summit, I urged the international community to keep raising the costs and pressure on President Putin and his enablers until all Russian troops leave Ukraine. Crimea is Ukraine. That was our position in 2014, and it remains in 2022. Embedded video
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Same dude, yesterday:
Secretary Antony J. Blinken With Editor in Chief Matt Murray At The Wall Street Journal CEO Council Summit
SECRETARY BLINKEN: Our focus is on continuing to do what we’ve been doing, which is to make sure that Ukraine has in its hands what it needs to defend itself, what it needs to push back against the Russian aggression, to take back territory that’s been seized from it since February 24th, to make sure as well that it has the support economically and on a humanitarian basis to withstand what’s happening in the country every single day. That’s our focus.
"Territory that’s been seized from [Ukraine] since February 24th" obviously does not include Crimea which Russia 'seized' in 2014. This then is a significant shift in the position Blinken had earlier underlined.
I’ve recently read reports that in some recent statements by Macron he has already signaled that settlement with Russia is on the way, and his recent trip to Washington was to iron those details out. Guess we’ll see.
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