The US fleet was to be based in Sevastopol for a period of 100 years, and the Aegis missile defense system
Moscow - Simferopol, February 11 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Shtamm) – After the Maidan, the Pentagon drafted and agreed with Kyiv on an agreement to station the US Navy in Crimea for a period of 100 years. This was reported in an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda by military historian Yuri Knutov, director of the Moscow Air Defense Museum.
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“After the armed coup in Ukraine, organized by Washington, American ships equipped with the Aegis missile defense system, which would neutralize our strategic forces right up to the Urals, should have been based in Sevastopol,” Knutov claims.
When asked where the data came from, the military historian replied that although it had never been published, “it is information from reliable sources.”
On the eve of the next negotiations in Minsk, Yuri Knutov calls on the Russian leadership not to weaken their position. “We agree to turn a blind eye to what is happening in the Donbass, we will close the border to humanitarian aid and volunteers - they will say: give up Crimea. If we give up Crimea, they will say that our nuclear weapons have been worrying the West for a long time. Well, then - remember the words of Madeleine Albright: “It is too great a luxury that Russia alone owns Siberia.” All this is a struggle for the resources that our country owns,” he explains.
According to the historian, the revision of the results of World War II and attempts to equate the USSR with Hitler's Germany are not accidental. “The Soviet Union was the aggressor, which means it must pay multi-billion dollar reparations! If he can’t pay, he must give up Siberia and its mineral resources... That’s it, the circle is closed. Everything is subordinated to one goal. Do you think by chance that Prince Charles compared Putin to Hitler last winter, recalling the Crimean situation? The direction has been set,” explains Knutov.
Now, perhaps, we are on the eve of another hot phase of the three-hundred-year conflict between Russia and the West, Knutov believes. “NATO aircraft based in the Baltic countries are capable of carrying nuclear missiles and nuclear bombs. They have a flight time to St. Petersburg of four minutes. Russian strategic bombers, by comparison, take ten hours to fly to the territory of the United States,” he reminds.
In the interview, the historian cites a lot of other data indicating a very dangerous situation that has developed in Russia and around Russia, calls for an urgent abandonment of the market economy and the transition to mobilization state regulation, talks about how Western chips that are used in Russian military equipment are remotely were switched off by the Yugoslavs during the 1999 war, calls for an urgent reconstruction of domestic microelectronics and says: “The situation is really similar to what it was before the Second World War.”
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