Why I still don’t think Russia wants to annex the Crimea
It’s
a risky thing, making such predictions in the middle of a fast-changing
and frankly confusing situation, when we have reportedly a couple of
thousand troops being airlifted into the peninsula and local premier
Aksenov claiming control over all forces in the area (does he mean
Russian ones too? I very much doubt it, or if he thinks he controls them
then I imagine it means “he controls them so long as he happens to be
telling them to do what Moscow wants them to do”). Nonetheless, let me
stick out my neck and say why, excitable headlines notwithstanding, I
don’t think Russia is about to annex the Crimea, let alone occupy
eastern Ukraine.
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