No One Has Ever Appeared To Be Able To Explain Trump: His Proposal Is An Attempt To Legitimize Genocide
- 18.08.2025, 16:37
Crimea is not just a peninsula, it is the cradle of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
For three and a half centuries (the U.S. celebrates 249 years this year), the Crimean Tatars had their own statehood, which played a prominent role in European history. The Crimean Khanate was an active participant in international politics, an ally and adversary of the great powers, shaped the balance of power in Eastern Europe and the Black Sea region.
All the tragedies of the Crimean Tatar people began from the moment the Russian Empire seized Crimea and liquidated its statehood in 1783. Since then, all Russian regimes - Tsarist, Soviet and the current Putin regime - have pursued the same goal: the complete expulsion of the Crimean Tatars from their ancestral land.
On May 18, 1944, the Soviet totalitarian regime committed one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century: the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people. Crimean Tatars were forcibly held in places of exile for almost half a century. As a result of this genocidal policy, the Crimean Tatar people are still on the brink of extinction.
And now that Russia reoccupied Crimea in 2014, Crimean Tatars face the same existential threat. Hundreds of political prisoners, most of them Crimean Tatars, torture, repression, and displacement from the peninsula are all part of the same imperial strategy Moscow is implementing in occupied Crimea.
And at this moment, U.S. President Donald Trump is suggesting that Ukraine "cede Crimea" to Russia. In essence, he is telling Putin to complete what the Tsarist Empire, the Soviet regime, and modern Russia have been doing for centuries - the destruction of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people.
It's a shame that no one has ever been able to explain to Donald Trump: his proposal is not just a political trade in territory. It is a condemnation of an entire people. It is an attempt to legitimize genocide. And that is why no agreement that provides for the surrender of Crimea to Russia can be acceptable - neither for Ukraine, nor for the Crimean Tatar people, nor for the world that still retains a notion of justice and humanity.
Refat Chubarov, Facebook