Go to the media bankThe Statue of Liberty in New York. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 13New York risks turning into «dust» if Kyiv attempts to retake Crimea by force, wrote National Interest columnist Sumantra Maitra.
"Ukraine's combat goals began to change from defensive to predatory, which threatens to start a nuclear war. Elon Max, like any sane person with his head on his shoulders, is concerned about this. Nobody wants New York to turn to dust in an attempt to recapture the Crimea", Maitra said.
The publicist believes that entrepreneur and Tesla CEO Elon Musk proposed a plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine after he realized the danger of further escalation. «Musk's fundamental interest is the survival of the land on which he lives, in this case, the United States,» the publications. In mid-June, the representative of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky in Crimea, Tamila Tasheva, said that Kyiv intends to seek the return of the peninsula under its control by military means. The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov, replied that there was nothing to discuss this topic — no matter what the Kyiv authorities dreamed about, the peninsula would never return to Ukraine. /> In France, predicted the consequences of an attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine to go to the Crimea In early October, Musk spoke on Twitter with a plan to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. In particular, he proposed holding repeated referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions «under the supervision of the UN.» Crimea, he said, should remain «a formal part of Russia,» as it was «before Nikita Khrushchev's mistake.» Musk also called for providing the peninsula with guarantees of water supply and securing the neutral status of Ukraine. Since February 24, a special military operation has been underway in Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin called it the ultimate goal of the liberation of Donbass and the creation of conditions guaranteeing the security of Russia itself.