The crisis in Crimea has risen to
greater heights because its implications are so much greater than just Crimea.
The question of Crimea is not for or against Crimea or Ukraine even, but for or
against Russia.
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The crisis has obviously gotten
huge amounts of international attention and has continued to grow, attracting
the attention of many international organizations such as NATO.
The NATO Secretary General Anders
Fogh Rasmussen has warned Moscow many times that they need to pull back their
troops from the Ukrainian border, otherwise further action would need to be
taken.
As of right now, NATO has
suspended all practical military and civilian cooperation with Russia. NATO has
also explored the possibility of deploying troops into Eastern Europe
permanently. It has become clear just how high tensions are surrounding the
situation on a global scale.
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NATO has accused Russia of having
some 40,000 troops prepared for combat along the Ukrainian border, stirring up
ethnic tensions in Ukraine, and generally not being transparent or peaceful in
the exchange. Correspondingly, Russia has accused NATO of keeping a Cold War
mentality and perpetuating an old conflict. The Kremlin stated that, “The
constant accusations against us by the secretary general convince us that the
alliance is trying to use the crisis in Ukraine to rally its ranks in the face
of an imaginary external threat to NATO members and to strengthen demand for
the alliance... in the 21st century."
Clearly, neither side is at any
point to engage in rational discussion so it would appear that the rest of us
can only watch and wait for the time being.
Original
Sources:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/nato-chief-presses-russia-to-pull-back-troops-from-ukraine-border/article17912150/
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