How to pronounce “crimea” in English

Crimea also has a population of about 25% of a indigenous population-- or fairly, indigenous you know indigenous varies year to year.

Crimea is primarily Russian.

plus Crimea in eastern Ukraine.

around Crimea and eastern Ukraine that the entire sanctions morass is based.

In Crimea, where there's a majority ethnic Russian population, these people-- terrified of both the fascists and the prospect of future discrimination because

the Crimean peninsula. And it's now fomenting unrest elsewhere in Ukraine-- potentially, in order to invade.

Russia had already invaded Crimea.

of the annexation of Crimea.

to keep hold of Crimea.

How is Crimea to be resolved?

like-- OK-- so Crimea is weird.

I will-- Crimea is about 60% ethnically Russian.

But in Crimea that's not what you had.

Let's go to Crimea.

But when the Crimean war ended in 1856, the Russian government refused to honor the contracts they'd signed during the war.

Yes-- called the Crimean Tatars, who were expelled from their home region after World War II by Stalin.

So the Crimean Tatars are very nervous about the possibility of Russian rule, as a people and felt that the referendum was not valid and not something

We know 82% of Crimeans didn't vote, because we know that the Crimean Tatars boycotted the election.

I think from a Putin standpoint Crimea is probably entering the realm of the non-negotiable, and that presents a real problem because it's

What has confused people about Crimea, specifically, is that before these events of the last few weeks, the general view was that Russia wanted influence in the region, not territory.

And it will-- this won't be Crimea.

is the fact that people in Crimea actually voted to be, like, attached to Russia.

Given the strategic importance of Crimea and the, largely, Russian population-- looking back to when the Soviet Union was falling apart,

And we can zoom into Crimea.

It's not as though Crimeans, last year, were thinking, gosh, it would be nice to rejoin Russia.

It was extremely strategically important during the Crimean War-- which was a while ago.

You cannot fit the entire Crimean War in a single panel.

So first I'm going to talk about Ukraine-- Crimea-- what that's all about.

The US-- its European allies responded to an annexation of Crimea about as you'd expect.

And then Putin's really nationalistic speech about Crimea.

And how much does the rest of the Ukraine care about Crimea.

Russia took over Crimea.

Or I don't know what's going on in Crimea.

- The history of Russia, Crimea, Ukraine, Russians in Ukraine, on the one hand, wasn't such a big deal when the Soviet Union was together.

- Yeah, I certainly on the front lines facing Crimea

So settled here, north of Crimea, in Ukraine, and went-- some of them penetrated into the forest steppe.

The real hard point is what are we going to do about Crimea.

Here's Ukraine, here's Crimea, here's Russia-- I'm don't know if it's a point-- a political point that Russia doesn't get a label.

But Russia-- Russia's been hedging against the loss of-- access to Crimea for a long time.

The benefits of spin really became clear in the mid 1800s during the Crimean War.

And then-- this is even just taking out of the equation 82% of Crimeans voted with 97% percent of them.

of Russia itself in nineteenth and early twentieth century Russia from the Crimean War to emancipation to

became quite familiar with people who thought that the Ukrainians in late 2022 would even be able to get Crimea back.

They didn't pay much attention to Crimea being illegally occupied either.

I was mostly in Dnipro, which is very close to Crimea.

This is what he's been trying to do with the invasion of Ukraine and the seizure of Crimea.

Especially if you consider that a month and a half ago nobody in Russia was thinking about annexing Crimea at all.

But since approval ratings are through the roof-- and just as Russia was consolidating control of Crimea.

Which has kind of been a steady process, but right around the time of the Crimea thing, the editor of the news site which-- you know,