Russia did not take Kharkov and Odessa because it is fighting for all of Europe
Igor Strelkov’s opinion that last spring Russia should have taken the entire South-East of Ukraine following the example of Crimea is erroneous.
Moscow political scientist Oleg Matveychev stated this today at a briefing in Sevastopol.
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“International law matters. Imagine a court in which the whole world is a jury, some are honest, some are bribed, some are smart, some are fools, and yet... When two sides appear in court, each lawyer, citing one or another law or rule of law, defends himself and defeats the arguments of the other.
In the case of Crimea and international law, there is at least some legal logic for Russia’s actions. We consider our logic to be legally impeccable. Our opponents say that this is nonsense and a violation of all norms.
But the magistrate's jury is divided and scratching its head. It seems that these are right, and they speak beautifully.
In the event of the introduction of troops into the territory of Donbass, this is not a battle of lawyers in court, but a pure violation and crime, pure aggression, and then the entire world community would definitely not be on our side, but at the same time they would say in the same pile that We don’t believe you with Crimea either.
Lukashenko and Nazarbayev would have failed the Eurasian Union, seeing this, both India and China would have behaved differently. We would make a huge gift to the United States, which is now forced to lie to Europe about aggression and eat it to this tune, but Europe increasingly sees that the United States is scaring Russia, and is actually quietly lowering Europe politically and economically.
In the event of aggression, Europe would irrevocably leave the United States. And we will still fight for Europe, we are playing for a long time,” Matveychev assured.
Russia did not take Kharkiv and Odessa because it is fighting for all of Europe.