Politician Warned the U.S. against Helping Ukraine with the Incident in the Sea of Azov

American politician and publicist Patrick Buchanan in his article for the American Conservative discusses about the one who are to blame for the situation in the Kerch Strait and why the U.S. easily allows itself to be drawn into foreign conflicts. Earlier, three ships of the Ukrainian Navy violated the state border of Russia, entered the temporarily closed water area of the Russian territorial sea. They were dangerously maneuvering, not obeying the legal requirements of the FSB border guards. As a result, the ships, along with 24 sailors, were detained, after which a criminal case was initiated against them about illegal crossing the state border, reports ria.ru. According to Buchanan, this case is a deliberate provocation by Ukraine. Ukrainian ships passed through the Kerch Strait more than once and knew all the rules very well. According to the politician, Petro Poroshenko deliberately ignored these rules in order to use this situation for his internal purposes. His ratings have fallen significantly, and he understands that if he doesn’t do something spectacular and sensational, his party will have virtually no chance at the elections. Immediately after the clash in the strait, Poroshenko imposed martial law in all provinces bordering Russia and the Black Sea, said that Moscow would soon invade Ukraine, demanded new sanctions from the West and urged the U.S. to oppose Russia. Following this, Adrian Karatnycky from the Atlantic Council called for strengthening the U.S. naval presence in the Black Sea, supplying anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles to Ukraine, tightening the sanctions and canceling the construction of the Nord Stream 2 and South Stream pipelines, Buchanan adds. Also he wonders how the United States is related to the issue of control over the Kerch Strait, and why the United States make it so easy to drag itself into needless conflicts. “Why are we letting ourselves be dragged into everyone’s quarrels—from who owns the islets in the South China Sea, to who owns the Senkaku and Southern Kurils; and from whether Transnistria had a right to secede from Moldova, to whether South Ossetia and Abkhazia had the right to break free of Georgia, when Georgia broke free of Russia?”, the politician writes. “If Ukraine had a right to break free of Russia in 1991, why do not Crimea, Donetsk and Luhansk have the right to break free of Kyiv? Do the American people care a fig for these places? Are we really willing to risk war with Russia or China over who holds title to them?” questions Buchanan. Source: Point.md