The past few weeks, much of the United States has been looking at the Ukraine and their overthrow of their president and creating a new government. We also see Russian president; Vladimir Putin trying to put the Russian military in the Ukraine because of its "illegitimate government". As the previous Link shows, Putin has deployed over 16,000 troops to the Crimean Peninsula which is where much of this is taking place. Russia is worried that because the Ukraine is right on their border and once part of Russia that this "falling under European Influence" a white house official stated. There is also a Crimean referendum which would join the Crimean Peninsula with Russia.
President Obama on the other hand stands with the fact that the Crimean referendum is currently violating International Law and saying that "we are passed the days of being able to redraw country lines by government power". President Obama makes the logical point about "Vladimir Putin's rationale for his incursion into Crimea was not "fooling anybody" and that Russian "meddling" in Ukraine would isolate Moscow". In this situation, President Obama is a very Effective president in not only the United State's sake, but in the independence of the Ukraine government. There is now a point where using Germany as a mediator, Putin can take out many of his troops from the Ukraine and still not lose the authority.
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I think it is interesting that there is a large population of Russians that live in Crimea. Crimea was given to Ukraine by Russia in 1954 but from 1783 until that time Crimea was part of Russia. When the Soviet Union collapsed and Ukraine gained its sovereignty a large portion of the population of Crimea was Russian. So when the Crimean population voted whether to remain part of Ukraine or join Russia, a large portion of those that voted were Russian.
For this case, I can say we are living in the world of democracy, where every country want to participate in it. Beside the long history, and tradition that Russia has with Crimea, I think the U.S should leave this matter to the European Union or to the Crimean people. For a example let say that, there are many young ethnic Russian Crimean who wanted to stay in Ukraine, and they never know any other country that they accept. but the majority of these young people wanted reunification with Russia. What can we change about their decisions and believes as the United States?
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