The Wilson Center published” Why Russia Gave Crimea Away Sixty Years Ago” in March 2014. The author relied on initial paperwork that had been made public following the fall of the Soviet Union.
The study compared those documents to established claims the Russian authorities made in 1954 when it transferred Crimea from the Russian Soviet Federation of Socialist Republics to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. The records provided a simple, false history of events involving the two nations that date back 300 times.  ,  ,
The invented narratives served as a cover for power problems within the Soviet Union, and they were connected to Nikita Khrushchev’s attempts to retake control after his elevation to the position of first minister of the Communist Party in September 1953. The irony of the 1954 Crimean exchange, which Moscow undertook to improve its hold over Ukraine, was brought to the end by Wilson.
Politicians are mired in outdated strategies to sit historical balance sheets rather than to explore options to fund the future. With the Treaty of Versailles and the Munich Agreement, to name only two, Europe made this error.
Related errors are being made by President Zelensky. He insists that the economic contract that President Trump suggested have security clauses in place because he thinks this will inhibit Russia. Munich is there on September 29, 1938, though.
Germany and England’s Neville Chamberlain and France’s Edouard Daladier signed a contract that allows it to annex Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia. Hitler promised to stop imposing any new regional restrictions on Europe when he invaded. The League of Nations, the weak and careless variation of the present-day United Nations, remained motionless on the war.
In a nutshell, social contract provisions are useless. True, wars are fought with terms, but mostly with swords by well-trained and patriotic war.  ,  ,  ,
Israel does not count on NATO or Europe as part of its written security deal with the US. It won war and deflected terrorist attacks despite being surrounded by brutal, vicious dictatorships, tens of military installations roaming neighboring failed nations with better workforce, as well as dozens of defense organizations roaming neighboring failed countries. It has been not only winning but even turning into a” start-up nation” thanks to its patriotic war, which is aided primarily by US military technology.
Take a closer look with these messages. President Zelensky is unable to alter the place of his country, as is the situation with the rulers of Israel. He was, however, alter its demography. Ukraine had the lowest fertility rate in Europe, standing at 1.16 in 2000, with 2.5 million young Russians leaving between 1991 and 2014, compared to the country’s lowest fertility level. Since the conflict, there have been approximately 6 million more people who are still alive, primarily fresh, and reproduction has dropped to 1, when the inhabitants replacement level calls for a replacement of 2.1 %. Before the conflict, Ukrainian sociologists predicted that the people had quickly drop from about 40 million to 26 million.  ,  ,
The usage of “fatherlands” and “motherlands” are acceptable beliefs. What does a continuing battle accomplish, however, if the younger generations cast ballots with their vaginas and feet and depart from these regions? Demography is no dream, but…
What are the alternatives then?
I’m not sure if Henry Kissinger, the former US Secretary of State, based his recommendations years ago that Kyiv settlement, ceding country to Russia, on the above data. If he thought of them, he held them close to his neck or discussed them behind closed doors, Diplomat as he was. Kissinger suggested in the press that Ukraine should greater take ceding the eastern territories to Russia.
President Trump did not recommend this as a place to start negotiations with Russia, but instead offered a purely commercial/financial commitment as a starting point.  ,
Kissinger also sent a strong warning to both the Russian government and its European allies, saying that” Pursuing the war beyond that stage would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a fresh war against Russia itself,” which is a phrase that President Trump used in more alarming words in reference to World War III. Kissinger even mentioned the danger of pushing Russia into China’s hands.
Zelensky also made a harsh comparison to Kissinger, saying that” these “great geopolitical figures” never see ordinary people, ordinary Ukrainians, millions of people living on the territory they are proposing to exchange for an illogical peace. You must always observe people.
When someone openly speculates what others might be thinking or feeling, it never helps when that is the case in an open discussion about inhumanity in the Oval Office.  ,
President Zelensky doesn’t seem to realize that despite reiterateling his desire for land and security guarantees, he is ignoring the de-populated area and giving up on the Ukrainians.
Few young Europeans are willing to fight there. They hardly have the patriotism to fight for Brussels, the EU, or Ukraine, despite yelling slogans in Western European capitals for whatever.
Despite having entrepreneurial vision and execution, Henry Ford is not a historical figure that I admire, but I do agree with his claim that “history is more or less bunk.” It is customary. We oppose tradition. The only historical context that is worth a tinker’s damn is the one we create today, and we want to live in the present. This observation does not suggest that Ukrainians who are suffering are not moved.  ,  ,
However, political compromisions are required for leaps into the future, and financing requires retaining and attracting critical masses of young minds.
An aging population neither climbs barricades nor has future hopes.
Kissinger did state in his Davos speech that he hoped Ukrainians would “match the heroism they have shown with wisdom”.
Perhaps the statement “matching heroism with a clearer understanding of both the country’s demography, and that the future depends on young minds with continuous access to finance – and which requires political stability more than territory – offers concrete, less emotional guidance.”
President Trump did offer this forward-thinking solution, whether you agree or disagree with the way things turned out in the Oval Office, but President Zelensky, regrettably, stuck with a few backward-looking failed ideas, believing that clauses on political papers are the keys to stabilizing solutions.
The article uses Brenner’s” How to Relink 7 billion People” and” Four of Finance.”