April 24, 2025 - The David Knight Show
06:48
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| Trump is at war with Zelensky again over this because he's now rejected the idea that they're going to freeze the line of contact and going to freeze it where it is now, just stop and have peace. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| We've got to have Crimea. | |
| And so that's what he put out on social media. | |
| Trump responded and says, well, if he wants Crimea, why didn't they fight for it 11 years ago when it was handed over to Russia without a shot being fired? | |
| And so he said he can have peace or he can fight for another three years before losing the whole country. | |
| This is in direct response to Zelensky the day prior, rejecting Washington's demands that Ukraine be ready to formally recognize Russia's sovereignty over Crimea. | |
| He says it's inflammatory statements like Zelensky's that makes it so difficult to settle this war. | |
| He has nothing to boast about, said Trump. | |
| Vice President Vance also jumped in. | |
| He's in India, but he said, we've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and to the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process. | |
| We'd walk away from a conflict somewhere? | |
| I mean, we've got to be at the center of every war and conflict, don't we? | |
| That's usually because we start them, you know. | |
| The Obama administration started. | |
| The only way to really stop the killing, he said, is for the armies to both put down their weapons to freeze this thing and to get on with the business of actually building a better Russia and a better Ukraine. | |
| So Trump is very unhappy at this point. | |
| He says, Zelensky had said to reporters, he said, In spite of what was offered by Trump and Putin, he said, there's nothing to talk about. | |
| This violates our Constitution. | |
| This is our territory, the territory of the people of Ukraine. | |
| Well, he's absolutely lying about that. | |
| Let's go back and look at history. | |
| Crimea has been a part of Russia, as long as America has existed, basically. | |
| 1783. 1783. | |
| Catherine the Great defeated the Muslims, the Ottoman Empire, and took Crimea 1783. | |
| As I mentioned before, you know, the beginning of this thing when the British are rattling their sabers and they got their chief of defense says, well, we beat the Russians in Crimea once before, we'll beat them again. | |
| Well, why were you fighting Russians in the Crimean War? | |
| Oh, well, that's because Crimea was part of Russia when we fought them in the 1800s. | |
| And it had been, at that point in time, part of Russia for 100 years. | |
| And so, and it stayed that way from 1783 to 1991. | |
| And after the Soviet Union broke up, 1989, by 1991, what they did was, you know, Ukraine was separate. | |
| And actually, Crimea was not... | |
| Technically, really a part of Ukraine, it was the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. | |
| And it was connected, in a way, to Crimea in the same way that you have with China. | |
| You had the semi-autonomous regions of Hong Kong and some other places like that, right? | |
| And so they said, all right, well, you know, we're kind of in charge, but we're going to give them a certain amount of autonomy. | |
| And they did that with Crimea as well because, again, Crimea was culturally different. | |
| It was mostly Russian. | |
| And so it was, and still is. | |
| And so the people were ethnically Russian. | |
| And even when these things were created in 1991, you had the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. | |
| And then in 2014, what happened was the coup that was done by the American government, by Obama, throwing out the leader that had been receptive to that and kind of leaving that where it was. | |
| And so the people in Crimea said, well, we don't like that. | |
| They're going to pull us in in a tighter orbit. | |
| So then at that point, they affiliated with Russia. | |
| And that's what Trump is referring to when he talks about 2014. | |
| And so then the new American-installed leadership there started attacking the areas, the eastern areas of Ukraine that wanted to be affiliated with Russia. | |
| They started bombing the civilian population and things like that. | |
| That went on for a while until Russia invaded in 2022. | |
| Now, this Zero Hedge article says, on a practical level, Russia is never going to give Crimea up. | |
| Regardless, it's been the historic home of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. | |
| And even from 1991 to 2014, they had an agreement with Crimea that the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet would be headquartered there. | |
| That's how tight the connections were and remained and still are between Russia and Crimea. | |
| An overwhelmingly Russian-speaking population that is there. | |
| But Zelensky is going to demand that he have control over it. | |
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