The Russian Invasion Of The Ukraine

the current event that have happened in crimea have left the world watching, wondering what is going to happen next. russian forces have invaded crimea and is currently trying to annex crimea. Crimea, which has a population that is about 60 percent Russian, was transferred from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, when both states were part of the Soviet Union. Crimea is also home to 300,000 Tatars, Turkic Muslims who suffered horribly under Stalin during Soviet times. They are almost all opposed to Crimea's union with Russia, and most boycotted the referendum. Recently Ukraine’s intelligence services identified Russian intelligence forces are targeting the pivotal parts of Ukraine’s government from within Russia. additionally SBU or Security Service of Ukraine identified that the Russian Black Sea Fleet was securing the presence of Russian secret services, national interests, and control over the direction of Ukraine’s political and military

On March 20, 2003 the United States entered into a conflict on two fronts. While the

In his 1988 Republican National Convention acceptance speech former U.S. President George H.W. Bush proclaimed that, “Weakness and ambivalence lead to war.”. For better or worse a state's ability to influence world politics is primarily based on much power they have. In purely academic terms, power is the ability of Actor A to get Actor B to do something that B would otherwise not do; the ability to get the other side to make concessions and to avoid having to make concessions oneself (Frieden P. A-6). Power is usually represented by the capability of a state to preserve or tip the balance of power towards their own national interests. Balance of power refers to a situation in which the military capabilities of two states or groups of

"My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger,” United States President George W. Bush said in an address to the American nation, and the rest of the world, upon the launch of the invasion of Iraq on March 19 2003.

Intelligence failure is not a phenomenon which is new. Over the last hundred years there have been repeated cases of Intelligence failure. When the Intelligence community failed, it often led to significant repercussions for the political side. Sometimes the failure led to massive loss of life like in the example of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the attacks on the twin towers on September 11, 2001. Most of these cases have been well analyzed and have led the policy makers to adopt reforms to prevent future attacks. The Intelligence failure of Pearl Harbor even led to the creation of the Intelligence community in the United States as we know it today. However, despite policy makers’ best efforts to make reforms to increase the effectiveness of the Intelligence community, failures continued to occur. With each reform it seemed like a new hole was discovered which led to a new failure and then had to be patched up. The attacks on September 11 are one of these examples. Because the Intelligence community was still geared towards threats of states like in the Cold War, it had not yet recognized the problem Islamic terrorism would play in the future (Travers 1997).

There are many places on Earth that have a disputable history. Crimea is somewhere in the top of those places. This is due to the very complex situations that this peninsula and its inhabitants have faced throughout the history. Undoubtedly, history is one of the complex factors that played a crucial role and ultimately led to the seizure of the peninsula. First inhabitants of Crimea were the Cimmerian people in the 5th century B.C. They were followed by Greeks in the 1st century B.C. and then by Romans in 1st A.D. During the next millennium, the peninsula was overrun by many tribes. Among these tribes were Mongols and the Byzantines. Golden Horde, the Tatars, settled in Crimea in the 15th century. The Tatars are considered Crimean

Millions of citizens in Crimea have been left in the dark and have to depend on candles and back up generators. The blackout was executed by the Tatar a far right Ukrainian nationalist group in Crimea who were against the annexation. The situation has become so bad that authorities have stopped trade with Crimea until they have the situation under control. Russia reaction to the blackout is it’s threatening to cut gas and coal supply to

The Iraqi war has left major long-term damage. Oftentimes, in the wake of and the after effects from the war the psychological effects will go unnoticed (Behrouzan, 2013). When war arises, there will be catastrophe on various levels that the country will experience. There has to be a lot of effort and strategic planning required from everyone concerning the war damages left behind. Therefore, after there has been a war, the country needs rebuilding from its damages. Furthermore, this paper will discuss humanitarian organization that will be aiding in the rebuilding. There will be a brief description of the Iraqi culture. This paper will also discuss three major topics in order to gain a better understanding then

The Iraq war is a highly polarizing topic in the United States and abroad alike. After the attacks of September 11, 2001, there were a lot of discussions on terrorism, but former U.S. President George Bush (in office 2001-2009) addressed things differently. In the new globalized world, as we know, you need consensus amongst constituent nations to gain support for a war. However, the Iraq war did not have the support that was needed to build a successful coalition amongst nations. Bush rationalized that the United States of America should invade Iraq on the grounds of "weapons of mass destruction.” According to a 2003 Bush speech, the coalition mission was "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein 's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people.” This paper will clarify the real reasons and agenda behind the American invasion of Iraq, along with the war’s negative results, and will offer a discussion of the change of public opinion towards it.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq has often been called a “liberal war”. Critics often refer to liberalism and the zone of peace as its main objective to overthrow Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. However did the invasion of Iraq have other characteristics of liberalism? It can be deduce that the 2003 invasion of Iraq had distinctive characteristics of liberal internationalism. Therefore it is the purpose of this essay to define liberal internationalism and provide an analytical reasoning for why the invasion contended liberal internationalism principles.

Among these tribes were Mongols and the Byzantines. Golden Horde, the Tatars, settled in Crimea in the 15th century. The Tatars are considered Crimean natives. Although they later became Turkish vassals, they remained very powerful and culture oriented. (Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia 2013, 12). Until the Stalin era, the peninsula had been invaded by other countries, like Russia and Germany (in World War 1). However, it became part of the USSR in 1921. Same as the other Soviet Republics, the native population was sent to other parts of the USSR, while native Russians were brought to the peninsula. The purpose was obvious – Russification (a form of cultural assimilation of a nation, making them pro-Russian) of the occupied or annexed territory (Ahsan 2015, 27). While in the Soviet Union, Crimea became part of the Russian Republic in 1945. Later, it was transferred to Ukraine in 1954 and remained part of it after the collapse of the Soviet Union. All these historical facts are important because they show how much different all the countries that conquer, colonized or annexed the peninsula were. Furthermore, all these countries, especially USSR, were trying to influence and even displace the population. By the end of WWII, only 25% of the local population were Tatars and in 2001 even worse – only 12% of the total population were Tatars. Meanwhile, the percentage of Russians increased to 59% (Piticar 2014, 439). According to the above demographics, in

However, in 2010, Yanukovych was finally elected, steering Ukraine economically and politically closer with Russia. Yanukovych was also responsible for Ukraine’s backing away from joining the EU, causing mass protest throughout Ukraine’s citizens, resulting in his impeachment. This strife is what allowed Russia to invade Crimea following their vote, as Ukraine was at a point of political weakness.

On top of the Russian economic issues, Putin felt Ukraine’s departure from Russian support was a major strike to the Russian national pride. Russia felt a kinship with Ukraine based on the close history these countries share. The relationship between Russia and Ukraine deteriorated because of Ukrainian efforts to embrace Western ideals and

War, chaos, depression, and corruption are some of the words to describe the chaos in Ukraine. Since the 3 billion Eurobond lent to Ukraine by Russia weren’t paid off the money, revolution was sparked within the citizens of Ukraine and slowly erupting into something many people fear will start another catastrophic event in Europe. Even with the strong support of NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Ukraine has but only two options, to move to E.U. or to move to the support of Russia, and the citizens are divided in half, the east and west, one side wanting to merge with Russia and the other wanting to merge with E.U.. And with Russia already annexing Crimea, which is located below Ukraine and Russia has tens of thousands troops lined up on the border and NATO not knowing what they should do, Ukraine is up in flames. Also with the president of Ukraine Yanokovych leaving and rejecting office unofficially to escape, leaving the balance of Ukraine in the hand of new president Oleksandr Twrchynov in charge of the disaster of what is now leading to an official civil war. The question is who is going to take action and when? NATO wanting to prevent a potential World War really doesn’t have any idea what they should do. And what does Russia even want from Ukraine? E.U. is trying to do everything possible to not take action, but from news reporters perspectives, these events could also relate to 1939 when Hitler took over all these nations and said the reason was that he

In the 2008 Bucharest Summit, the Allies agreed that Georgia and Ukraine will possibly become members of NATO; NATO stated on their topic of enlargement that their doors were open for Ukraine. On November 30th, 2013, protest erupts after Ukrainian President Yanukovych rejects deal with the European Union (News, 2013). Approximately, 10,000 demonstrators carrying the EU flag protested in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev; it was clear Yanukovych was pressured by Russia to reject this deal. Yanukovych argued that “could not afford to sacrifice trade with Russia, which opposed the deal. He also described an EU offer to lend Ukraine 610m euros (£510m; $828m) as inadequate and said it would need at least 20bn euros a year to upgrade its economy to European standards” (News, 2013). This event brought about the orange revolution in Ukraine calling for the resignation of President Yanukovych. “EU leaders said in a statement that they "strongly" disapproved of Moscow 's pressure on Ukraine not to sign - while Russian President Vladimir Putin accused the EU of blackmail”; the EU members also stated that the doors were open for Ukraine (News, 2013). A year later, November 2014 Ukraine finds itself in armed battle with pro-Russian separatists. These separatist then elect President Poroshenko whom is backed by Russia, however “denounced by the West” (News, 2014). These tensions within Ukraine and between Russia bring about difficulties with the gas supplies. A deal is brokered by the EU, in