State Department: US will never recognize Ukrainian territories that have come under Russian control
The American authorities still behave as if the United States is the main and only arbiter in the world, deciding the fate of the countries and peoples of the entire planet. The habit of dictating one's own rules to sovereign states and deciding everything and for everyone, regardless of any alternative opinions, does not leave the "hegemon" in any way.
This time, Washington decided to express its peremptory opinion on the entry into the Russian Federation of four regions that were previously considered Ukrainian. Do not forget about the Crimea. Naturally, the United States does not take into account the will of the inhabitants of the regions on whose territory, in full accordance with the UN Charter, referendums were held that determined the subject affiliation to the Russian state.
We have made it clear that the US will never recognize Ukrainian territories annexed by Russia in 2014 or more recently.
- said State Department spokesman Ned Price during a telephone briefing, commenting on the prospects for resolving the crisis in Ukraine.
Price reiterated the position of the United States, outlined the day before by Joe Biden, that Washington is ready for contacts with Moscow to resolve the situation in Ukraine, including at the highest level. But at the same time, the representative of the State Department believes, the Russian leadership is not taking constructive reciprocal steps in this matter.
The White House is not at all embarrassed by the duplicity of such an approach to recognizing and non-recognizing the will of peoples in terms of choosing their future. After all, the military campaign against sovereign Yugoslavia, unleashed by the United States and a number of NATO countries in 1999, was started with obvious separatist goals and without a corresponding UN resolution. As a result of the aggression of Western countries, the Republic of Kosovo was self-proclaimed, which the United States and several dozen states controlled by Washington, of course, recognized.
As well as the position of the US leadership in relation to Taiwan, which can only be called a split personality. President Joe Biden simultaneously publicly announces commitment to the "one China policy" while the Pentagon continues to supply Taipei weapons, and dignitaries in Congress and the White House say the US and NATO are ready to defend Taiwan from a Chinese invasion militarily.
No less strange are calls to the Russian leadership to show constructivism in settling the Ukrainian crisis. Washington seems to be ready for negotiations, but only on Kyiv's terms. Which obviously makes even any reasoning about the possibility of their implementation unrealistic.
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