Nearly 160 years ago during the Crimean war in 1854; the French and British forces blockaded the Russian fortification in the Crimean Peninsula after their triumph over the tsar’s army in the Port of Sevastopol in the Alma River. Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire forged their unprecedented alliance after Nicholas I of Russia invaded the naval fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Black Sea and occupied the Romanian territories of the Empire which included the modern Ukraine. In reaction to the tsar’s surprise move, Britain and France, which had never been the Ottoman allies, declared war against Russia and launched the bloody Crimean war one and a half centuries ago. After Britain and France blockaded the Russian fortifications in the Crimean Peninsula, Russia withdrew from the region and called for peace. A peace agreement was inked on March 30, 1856 in Paris which obligated Moscow to return the occupied territories to the Ottoman Empire..... .....After 24 years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia still seeks to maintain its status as a global power, despite its smaller population and territory compared with the Soviet Union, and it adjusts its positions and behaviors according to that status. On the other hand, the West, headed by the US, stays against Moscow’s policy and endeavors to convince Russia to accept its new status as a regional power. The efforts to annex Russia’s satellites, including Ukraine, Georgia, etc, to the EU and the Western bloc are being made in line with that policy and the Russians are well aware that the main objective behind these policies are aimed at undermining Russia’s status in the new world order; therefore they resist against the policy with all their might. Today, Russia believes that concession on Ukraine is detrimental to Moscow in two respects, first being Russia’s image which will be severely tarnished as a result of such concession to the West and the second being the nationalist prestige of Putin and his entourage which will become fragile in Russia and may strike a fatal blow to them in the next elections. Read more here: presstv.ir/detail/2014/03/10/354110/crimean-crisis-repeats-after-150-years/
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 01:47:59 +0000
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