Crisis in Ukraine: Russia Extends its Control over the Black Sea and Strategic Waterways
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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research
On May 15, President Vladimir Putin took part in the opening ceremony of the Crimean Bridge – “a super 19-kilometre-long construction” linking Crimea to Russia’s Krasnodar region.
This bridge is strategic. The following article first published by Global Research in March 2014 examines the broader economic and geopolitical implications.
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The decision of Crimea to join the Russian Federation has strategic and geopolitical implications.
The union of Crimea with Russia redefines both the geography as well as the geopolitical chessboard in the Black Sea basin.
It constitutes a major setback for US-NATO, whose longstanding objective has been to integrate Ukraine into NATO with a view to undermining Russia, while extending West...