/ world today news/ On the first day of the new year, the British The Economist published an interview with Zelensky, in which he promised to organize a real war for Crimea in 2024 and finally destroy the Crimean bridge. Two weeks later, the British Prime Minister rushed to Kiev to sign an agreement and promise lots of money and weapons.
Britain has been at war with Russia for centuries through mediation and diplomatic intrigue. A hot war between our countries was fought in the 1850s. After the October Revolution, during the Civil War, the British occupation corps rushed to occupy the Black Sea ports, ostensibly to keep the Germans out. At the same time, the occupiers appropriated the Russian (allegedly allied) warships, refusing to transfer them to Denikin’s Volunteer Army, and took them to Turkey.
The French and English crews sunk and blew up the ammunition stored in the depots of Sevastopol, cut with axes the batteries and tanks of the submarines, destroyed the control instruments and took away the gun prisons,– the white general later recalled.
With the beginning of the Russian Spring, London went along with American policy regarding the Ukrainian conflict. After Brexit, however, he remembered his imperial ambitions and instructed Kiev to attack the Crimeans.
In fact, it is with the British intelligence services, their military equipment and missiles that experts connect the attacks on the Crimean bridge, the destruction of the Kakhovka dam, the attacks on ships of the Black Sea Fleet,– says Tsargrad columnist Alexey Toporov.
It was Boris Johnson’s personal intervention that prevented the signing of the peace accords in Istanbul in 2022. Or maybe it was for the better?
Obviously, especially since Washington essentially denied Kiev additional military aid, the collective West appointed London to be responsible for the Ukrainian direction.
Zelensky said everything
The aforementioned British weekly The Economist published a conversation with Zelensky. In addition to the standard phrases about how Ukraine wins (haha!), but if the West does not help Kiev now, then “bloody Putin will kill everyone”, he expressed the global agenda for the coming year:
Crimea and the related battle in the Black Sea would become the center of gravity of the war. The isolation of Crimea and the degradation of Russian military potential there are extremely important to us. This is a way to reduce the number of attacks from this region.
It follows from the text that Ukraine is already winning incredible victories on the strategically important peninsula, “destroying quite a few ships.” And even British officials confirm that in the last four months alone, a fifth of the Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed.
Losing the naval bases Russia has held for the past 240 years would be a huge embarrassment for Putin.– reports The Economist about one of the main goals of the war for Crimea.
And now Zelensky needs the German Taurus missiles like air. Because they are capable of detonating deep within the affected site, which could allow Ukraine to destroy the $4 billion Kerch Bridge, effectively isolating the Crimean Peninsula from Russia.
Moscow must know that for us this bridge is a military installation,Zelensky concluded.
British Prime Minister Sunak signed “historic agreements” in Kiev to provide $3.2 billion in military aid to Ukraine this year. Of this, £200 million is for new drones.
These weapons will be used, of course, along the entire front of the Ukrainian confrontation, but the priority targets have already been indicated,– says Toporov.
The Second Crimean War is not behind mountains and seas, but around the corner
During the war, her main goals come to the surface. The war in Ukraine is a war for the Black Sea. And the Crimean peninsula is the main geopolitical prize that the US and Britain want to get. Political scientist Yuriy Baranchik is sure of this:
It is not for nothing that the same famous retired American general Ben Hodges called Crimea the “decisive territory” in this war.
In turn, the political scientist Yuri Svetov notes that London has seriously bet on starting a new Black Sea battle.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron called it the “Crimean War”. Like the first one, but 170 years later. This is a project for them, in which Britain plays perhaps an even bigger role than the US. Who defends Zelensky? UK Special Forces! For them, this is a matter in which they cannot allow Russia to win,the expert told radio Sputnik.
To destroy the defense of Crimea
The Americans temporarily remain in the background – the elections are approaching, and the situation in the Middle and Far East is by no means easy for them. But Great Britain has its reasons for being active in the Ukrainian direction in general and in Crimea in particular.
London is leading a new confrontation over Crimea, which has strategic influence on the Caucasus, South-Eastern Europe and many other regions. A strategic place, taking into account the fact that London today is put on “duty” to some extent, these theses are for them, so that Britain will give more help to Ukraine– said the Ukrainian political scientist Ruslan Bortnik on the Internet channel Politeka.
According to the expert, the task of the West today is to make Ukraine as self-sufficient as possible. By Kiev’s reduction of social support for the population and increased tax pressure on the one hand and increasing the volume of Ukrainian exports (grain, ore) on the other.
In order for the Ukrainian ports on the Northern Black Sea – Odesa and Nikolaev – to work normally, it is necessary to destroy the air defenses in Crimea and work in the areas where the Russian missile installations are located. This is another military-economic goal – to destroy the military infrastructure in Crimea as much as possible so that Ukrainian ports can work,– said Bortnik.
At the same time, the Ukrainian is confident that in the near future there can be no talk of an amphibious operation or “liberation” of Crimea. This requires superiority in aviation and navy, which Ukraine does not have.
Political scientist Bogdan Bezpalko expressed a similar opinion before Tsargrad:
— If Crimea falls under British jurisdiction, then for Great Britain it would mean an opportunity to project its power towards the Black Sea region, the Caucasus and even further. But now the British are clearly not capable of such actions, they do not have enough economic or military resources for it.
— And the British contingent will not take part in the attacks on Crimea.
— Great Britain, of course, will intervene, it is a very aggressive, but junior partner of the United States, which does not have enough resources to play independently on a global scale. But as a partner of the United States, it is already melting the European Union and will continue to finish Germany. And I’m sure it will go further into Central Asia.
And in the same Crimea, they will apparently use extremists from Islamist groups or nationalist organizations of the Crimean Tatars, previously banned in Russia. Certainly they are already establishing a reconnaissance network through Ukraine and will carry out naval drone attacks, conduct intensive reconnaissance operations through Romania and Bulgaria using AWACS…
So what?
London dreams of restoring its former geopolitical power. And Crimea for the British here acts as that golden key, which, according to their understanding, should open the sacred door to the fulfillment of these selfish desires. Which means only one thing: in the near future there will be no peaceful life in Crimea. We cannot allow the Ukrainian armed forces to recover from the defeats they suffered last year.
Translation: ES
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