doi:10.1515/lasr-2016-0004Koeth WolfgangLithuanian Annual Strategic Review
How did Mount Vesuvius affect Pompeii? How did the atomic bomb start the Cold War? How did perestroika contribute to the collapse of the U.S.S.R? How did the Salton Sea get polluted? How did Crimea become part of Ukraine? How was Yugoslavia formed?
It was 2015, a year after Russia had seized Crimea and started a war in eastern Ukraine. It was still six years before Russia would move to its full-scale invasion, but the front-line in eastern Ukraine still smoldered amid a poorly observed ceasefire agreement...
the Donbass Arena, when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 -- a poignant reminder this conflict dates back much further than the February 2022 incursion -- and have been on the road ever since, moving to Lviv in the east of Ukraine
(In annexing Crimea, Russia itself broke a promise: In the Budapest Memorandum, a treaty Russia signed with the U.S. and U.K. in 1994, it committed "to respect the independence and sovereignty and the existing bor...
Ukraine has accused Russia of shelling agricultural infrastructure, burning fields, stealing grain and trying to sell it to Syria after Lebanon and Egypt refused to buy it. Satellite images taken in late May by Maxar Technologies show Russian-flagged ships in a port in Crimea being loaded with ...
How did the U.S. acquire Oregon? How did territories become states under the Northwest Ordinance? How did Crimea become part of Ukraine? How did the U.S. acquire the Oregon Treaty? How did the U.S. change the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
“deterrence”, differ significantly from the public ones. These plans are governed by secret documents and are not subject to public communication at all. In 2008, during the aggression against Georgia and in 2014 during the aggression against Ukraine, the Russians did not demonstrate the ...
Days later, Russia illegally annexed Crimea, and its proxies seized government buildings in Donetsk and Luhansk in the east of Ukraine, declaring themselves independent of Ukraine. They met little formal resistance: Under Yanukovich, Ukraine’s armed forces and intelligence agencies had been gutted...
How did we get here? The roots of the Ukraine-Russia crisis can be traced back all the way to the two countries’ origin stories, with many of the Russian nationalists backing Putin citing a unique historical bond that began in the ancient world. Arguably more important, though, is the ...