New state formations to appear on map after Ukraine’s breakup — senior Crimean official
Ukraine no longer exists as a country, Vladimir Konstantinov noted
SIMFEROPOL, March 18. /TASS/. Ukraine is in a state of disintegration, with new state formations expected to appear on its current territory, although it is premature to discuss their number and potential borders, Crimean State Council Chairman Vladimir Konstantinov said in an interview with TASS.
"New state formations are expected to be established there. How many of them will there be? It is impossible to forecast. A breakup is always difficult to gauge," he said when asked about Ukraine’s future prospects. "Of course, for us it will be important to make sure that all new state formations that will appear here do not pose a threat to us. After all, territory is not the most important thing for Russia; the Russian world has sufficient territory. What’s lacking is security," the official added.
Ukraine no longer exists as a country, Konstantinov noted. "There is some sort of formation now, which is being governed by some sort of strange people. Some call them drug addicts, while others have more offensive words for them. This is just a gang that is currently ruling over this territory. This is very convenient for exploiting the country from the outside," he stressed.
Crimea has lodged a number legal claims against Kiev for large amounts, the speaker of the regional legislature said. "We should in no case repeat the mistake that was made when Germany’s independence was restored, to allow having statehood after the large-scale crimes of the Nazi regime, without burdening it with financial responsibilities. Expurgation of the Nazi menace is necessary. This is precisely what denazification is all about. And weapons should not be given to those territories for some time. This is what demilitarization is all about. The rest is simply details. Some regions will ask to join Russia, while others will band together and create some sovereign formations. There should be a right to choose," he said.
https://tass.com/politics/1761109
Interesting in light of recent threats that Ukraine will join NATO and US and NATO pledging hundreds of billions of dollars.
Re: the recent threats -
a) Hundreds of billions of dollars that are not only theoretical, but also politcially charged, and uncomfortably hingeing on Speaker Johnson's integrity.
b) "Joining NATO" nominally involves meeting all sorts of stipulations, such as 'not being at war' for example, and paying an ongoing tribute to the organization (LOL, thanks, Trump) that implies a functioning economy. Neither of which Ukraine can meet, in their current state of flux and downward spiralling.
A pragmatic view is that Ukraine was always a patchwork quilt of cultures, drawn on a map, by ideologues, in an attempt to define the 'border region'. It is no coincidence that the word Ukraine sounds similar to Grenze - the German word for border. One can even see lines of paleolithic hillfort structures, in joined lines of defense, riddled accross the Ukrainian landscape (And bomb craters dating to WW2) - but that is another story.
The struggle was never just about Russian invaders (who arrived, as Putin pointed out, as early as a thousand years ago, and built shining succesful Russian cities; juxtaposed against poor, underpriviledged, but also angry, (pig-farming) partisan freedom-fighters, who nastily aligned themselves with NAzi-ism in WW2 and arguable were the very target of Stalinist purges into Gulags - for good reason. Mind you, I am not defending Stalin. LOL. My point is that All the Hurt that has gone down in this neck of the World's woods, has ancient roots. Indeed, there were waves of invasions, just as Britain was forged out of foreign invasions. The Black Sea is covered with Iron/Bronze Age archeological sites from all sorts of extractions. Did anyone know that Mariupol was a Greek city?
In fact, there are regions that are distinctly Hungarian, Polish, Belarussian, and Romanian, just as there is a region that is now called New Russia i.e., Novorossia. So it is natural to extrapolate a re-patriation of peoples not belonging in the construct of a NAzi homeland.
What Konstantinov is highlighting is the debate of whether to allow a Nazi homeland at all.
Thank you for the very well thought out and informative comment
Coming from TASS, I would take all of this with a grain of salt. It seems there MIGHT be some truth in the story, but TASS will reliably slant a story toward Russian agendas. I suspect the truth is somewhere in between this and the fact that Ukraine has a leadership crisis right now, and may be facing de facto dissolution if certain powerful warlords think Zelinsky et al. are showing signs of weakness.
Well, since March 31, Zelenskiyiyiyi is no longer the prez.