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U.S. No Longer Supports Fight For Crimea
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.
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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.
Nationality of Crimean residents in % by year:
Census Crimean Russians Ukrainians Others
Tatars
1897 35.6 33.1 11.8 19.5
1926 25.3 42.7 11.0 21.0
1939 19.4 49.6 13.7 17.3
1959 0.0 71.4 22.3 6.3
1979 0.3 68.4 25.6 5.7
1989 1.6 67.1 25.8 5.5
2001 10.3 60.7 24.1 4.9
2014 10.6 67.9 15.7 5.8
Posted by: S | Dec 6 2022 17:17 utc | 85
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State Native American (Total) Indian (%)
Wyoming 20,4 3.52%
Wisconsin 93,28 1.57%
West Virginia 13,391 0.75%
Washington 223,318 2.83%
Virginia 89,497 1.02%
Vermont 8,096 1.25%
Utah 56,640 1.68%
Texas 370,697 1.24%
Tennessee 62,889 0.90%
South Dakota 91,221 10.12%
South Carolina 48,904 0.94%
Rhode Island 13,851 1.25%
Pennsylvania 92,952 0.71%
Oregon 130,446 3.02%
Oklahoma 535,675 13.39%
Ohio 99,662 0.84%
North Dakota 50,939 6.36%
North Carolina 208,642 1.96%
New York 207,027 1.02%
New Mexico 229,071 10.76%
New Jersey 64,849 0.69%
New Hampshire 10,734 0.77%
Nevada 67,377 2.12%
Nebraska 33,736 1.70%
Montana 87,563 7.94%
Missouri 82,267 1.33%
Mississippi 24,230 0.82%
Minnesota 110,783 1.91%
Michigan 148,080 1.46%
Massachusetts 52,168 0.73%
Maryland 64,146 1.03%
Maine 23,349 1.71%
Louisiana 60,705 1.30%
Kentucky 32,270 0.71%
Kansas 62,955 2.13%
Iowa 28,277 0.88%
Indiana 52,448 0.77%
Illinois 104,386 0.81%
Idaho 43,642 2.30%
Hawaii 32,391 2.20%
Georgia 107,995 0.99%
Florida 178,120 0.81%
Delaware 9,810 0.97%
Connecticut 35,973 1.00%
Colorado 125,039 2.11%
California 806,874 2.02%
Arkansas 61,280 2.02%
Arizona 405,281 5.55%
Alaska 146,557 19.86%
Alabama 61,655 1.22%
Native American population before 1492: Best estimate is between 50 and 112 million.
Population of non-Native Americans today 332,403,650.
U.S. Census Bureau 2022: Native American (Indigenous population) is: 6,790,000 (about 2,1%).
Posted by: Ed | Dec 6 2022 19:02 utc | 120
From Strelkovs tg channel:
And now also briefly on the impressions of the trip, which was inconclusive, but not useless (since my eyes and ears remained with me, and my head is also still working).
Naturally, I intend to keep the vast majority of my impressions and conclusions to myself. To, so to speak, “not to discredit”. Positive impressions – I will share in the upcoming (hopefully) video conferences. But there are not too many of them – in relation to the negative ones.
And now I will only note that the basis of all our “increasing victories” on the fronts and directions of the NMD is the deepest crisis of strategic planning. Simply put, the troops are fighting “by inertia”, not having the slightest idea of the ultimate strategic goals of the current military campaign and only guessing about the vague plans of the command for such grandiose senseless gestures as the construction of a completely insane in uselessness (but wildly expensive in terms of execution cost) Surovikin Lines.
In most parts of the RF Armed Forces, soldiers and officers do not understand: for what, for what and for what purposes they are fighting in general. For them, a mystery – what is the condition for victory or just a condition for ending the war? And the authorities of the Russian Federation are not able to explain this to them, since setting a clear goal for the NWO means “limiting room for maneuver” – that is, losing the opportunity to declare the goals of the NWO as achieved at any moment that the Kremlin leaders consider convenient. (For the thousand and first time, I remind you that the passionately desired “reconciliation with partners,” for which many steps are being taken to this day that demoralize society and the army, is unattainable in principle, but the Kremlin and Staraya Square do not want to believe in it).
Such sentiments specifically in the troops lead to apathy. Apathy, on the other hand, leads to a drop in morale and the fulfillment of the tasks set “for show” and “slip of the sleeves”, without a real interest in their successful result. So – in the army of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (and parts of the Armed Forces of the LDNR, although there the fighters have much more motivation) apathy prevails.
The absence of a clear military-political strategy does not allow the military to develop tactics that will contribute to its implementation. In the meantime – “on a whim” – the RF Armed Forces are preparing for a protracted positional war, building long-term structures along the entire front in the style of “a la the Mannerheim Line” (it does not pull on the “Maginot Line”). The fact that following the strategy of a protracted war is suicide for the Russian Federation (and its authorities and elites, too, by the way) – I wrote back in 2014, but I said (more than once or twice) – from the very beginning of the current campaign.
Therefore, watching how the enemy slowly (and without encountering any opposition) implements his own strategic tasks with the complete passivity of the military and political authorities of the Russian Federation, I do not expect anything good at the front in the coming weeks.
And, yes, – the so-called. “Ukraine” will NOT freeze in winter, will NOT rebel and will NOT fight worse. Vice versa. Its soldiers, who have already believed in their strength as a result of the autumn victories of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and are fully supported by NATO, will only fight harder and harder against the “Muscovites”, avenging the hardships that their relatives and friends in the rear are forced to bear. And they will be met only by apathetic performance of duty, behind which many fighters and commanders have long been looming the unresolved question: “What are we doing here, if Moscow is most concerned with the implementation of” grain deals “, the unhindered pumping of ammonia through Odessa and the” price ceiling ” on gas and oil supplied to numerous Western partners?“
HEY CHEERLEADERS!
I remember posting similar thoughts here a couple of weeks ago.
I was met with ridicule, about how everyone knew exactly what the war aims were, morale sky high etc.
“Denazification” and “Demilitarisation” are not war aims, and you are an idiot if you believe they are.
A war aim would be something like “Unconditional surrender of enemy forces”.
Of course, it is an “SMO”…
Putin is a useless neoliberal, and everyone here knows it, but can’t admit it.
Posted by: Moaobserver | Dec 6 2022 19:06 utc | 123
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