Beware: Global Powers are Proactive NOW
Russia Gets Crimea, Should Germany Get
Kaliningrad?
According to Moscow Times correspondent Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber some states are apparently more equal than others
when it comes to correcting "mistakes" of the past.
In its story of 21st March he is refereeing President Vladimir Putin
who said in his speech to the nation that Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev's decision to hand Crimea to the Ukrainian Socialist
Soviet Republic in 1954 was a "clear violation of the
constitutional norms that were in place even then." Putin depicted
the annexation of Crimea as correcting a "historical
error," arguing that the region has played a vital role
in Russia's history and culture for centuries.
So if it is the case will
other global powers follows Moscow? The same correspondent in the story refers
old capital of Prussian Germany, Kaliningrad near Baltic sea; Russian
region of Kaliningrad, a historically German exclave that Germany
lost to the Soviet Union in 1945 following the conclusion
of World War II.
Than what will Turkey do? Will
it claim territories of Ottoman Empire? Britain can also start day dreaming. It
is indeed an endless effort. 100 years back we witnessed disintegration of several
empires i-e Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia and Prussian
Germany yet after 100 years situation is
much different and if such tug of war starts its beneficiaries will be Transnational
companies rather than Nation states. Keeping in mind Power of Capital and a
weak UN system Global powers should not open the Pandora box of “correcting the
historical errors”.
“Germany does not make
claims on Kaliningrad, formerly known as Konigsberg, but some consider its
status as a Russian territory erroneous, just as many Russians viewed
Crimea's status as part of Ukraine. Inesis Feldmanis, head of the
Faculty of History and Philosophy at the University
of Latvia, said he believed Kaliningrad's annexation by the Soviet
Union was, similarly, "an error in history."
Situation is not as smart as
Russian thinks. “A spokesman from Russia's Defense Ministry said
in December 2013 that Russia had deployed nuclear-capable Iskander
tactical ballistic missiles to Kaliningrad, putting the Baltic States
and Poland on high alert. Putin later denied the ministry's
statement.”
Global reshuffling will
have impacts not only in Europe but also on other parts of the world. As in 21st
century US is far away from the sermons of Franklin Bingaman and Wilson’s neutrality
so it will be hard to save her from the flames of reshuffling in this
interdependent world.
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