Recently a great catastrophe
struck the whole world as the flight MH17 was dashed down into bits and pieces
due to an inhumane act by some horrifying people. As the MH17 was gunned down,
289 benign souls were made to leave this world. Those who were dreaming of a
good future were made to get the whole of their life devastated. Those who
dreamt of moving ahead were ravaged completely. The Boeing 777-200ER airliner
went down debilitated near Hrabove in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine at a distance of
about 40km from the Ukraine-Russia border, slaying down all of the passengers
just due to international animosity arising out of the Crimea issue.
The Malaysian Airlines Flight
17 was scheduled international passenger flight flying from Amsterdam to Kaula
Lampur that crashed on 17 July near the Ukraine-Russia border. The calamity
that struck the travellers was in itself a huge shock to the whole world, but
now the results which are going to ensue this incident can be much more horrifying.
To understand the profoundness
of the matters that just took place, we need to plunge back in time, to know
about the Crimean disaster. The Crimean crisis which recently came into the
limelight involved Russia and Ukraine over the control of Crimean Peninsula
until its annexation by the Russia. This move of Russia was unwelcomed by
various powerful heavyweights of the world like United States of America,
France and Germany and then these nations decries Russia for intimidating
Ukraine and forcefully annexing Crimea which was actually a part of Ukraine
while on the other side Russia remained stern on its position and thrived on
its stance by citing the result of the Crimean referendum in which people
residing in the Crimean region were asked to vote in a referendum on whether
they wanted to join Russia or if they wanted to restore Crimea’s status as a
part of Ukraine. In the referendum 96.77% of the voters voted in favour of
assimilation of Crimea in Russia. Russia officially
recognized the results of the Crimean referendum and claims that unilateral Kosovo declaration of independence has set a precedent, which
allows secession of Crimea from Ukraine. Such parallels are disputed by Western
scholars, however.
Russia put, in its favour, this argument
against the condemnation of countries like Germany, United States and France
and European Union. While later thirteen members of the United Nations Security
Council voted against the referendum quoting it invalid and Russia vetoed it.
After than EU, USA, UK etc.
came ahead to snap various embargoes on Russia citing the problem with Russia
on the Crimean issue but the Russia refuted to abandon its stance and therefore
continued to take Crimea as a part of Russia. This suddenly led to the
polarisation of the whole of the world into two half just like the condition of
cold war. One side of the world which has some contention issues with the
Unites States accumulated in the side of Russia and the rest went to the Unites
States. Again the issue went silent on the international forum as EU imports many
things from Russia and didn’t want to break up from Russia snapping up the supply
of various commodities.
Till now the tensions had not
even been abated and yet another problem arose in front of the world. The recent
airliner crash! Now the US and its allies are blaming Russia, calling it
culprit of the recent crash while Russia says that the Ukraine government needs
to take up the responsibility of the attack as it took place over the territory
of Ukraine.
At this time, when all of the
nations in the conflict are equipped with nuclear bombs and weapons of mass
destruction, neither USA nor Russia would want to enter into a state of cold
war but tensions can definitely trigger between the two old enemies. USA wants
to minimize Russian influence on previous USSR nations and nations neighbouring
Russia while on the other hand Russia wants to regain its influence on various
neighbouring nation and when the beliefs of these two world powers collide,
something bad can happen at any point of time.
Therefore the world today needs
to be careful about the results that can follow the current problems rising
between Unites States and Russia and
hence something needs to be done on the matter. Today various international
organisations like UN should intervene in the matter in order to help the
countries make a settlement rather than condemning one another.
Hope that the peace will be
maintained and nothing bad like Cold War would once again shroud the whole
world.
JAI HIND, JAI BHARAT
JAI MA BHARTI
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