Trump's Reported Plan to Recognize Crimea as Russian Sparks Fury

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Newsweek

Published Apr 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM EDT | Updated Apr 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM EDT


A reported plan by the United States to recognize Russia's control over Crimea as part of a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine has sparked anger for handing Russian President Vladimir Putin a victory regarding the peninsula he illegally annexed in 2014. The potential concession reported by Bloomberg citing unnamed sources follows President Donald Trump and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicating on Friday that the U.S. administration may abandon its peace-brokering efforts if talks fail.

But Pro-Ukrainian figures joined a chorus of disapproval over the reported proposal which the outlet said had not been finalized and has not been independently confirmed. When contacted by Newsweek, the White House said it will not comment on ongoing discussions. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.

Why It Matters

Russian troops invaded Crimea in February 2014 and after illegally seizing the peninsula, a sham referendum was cited by Moscow as showing most of the population favored reintegration with Russia. The annexation formed the backdrop to a war in Ukraine's Donbas region which preceded Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Kyiv would not cede to Russia any territory, including Crimea, as part of a peace deal. Putin claims to have annexed four other Ukrainian regions which Moscow does not fully control. Recognizing Russia's control of Crimea would deliver a major win for Putin, who has long pushed for international legitimacy over the territory.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-crimea-trump-2061694

[cstanleytech]

1. Anyone really surprised?

[hueymahl]

2. Praying for Peace in Ukraine

[70sEraVet]

3. We all knew that giving away Uraine was the price Traitor Tot had to pay.

Putin won't even be required to say 'thank you'.

[dutch777]

4. I suppose back room deal with Putin to recognize Canada and Greenland as American. Sell out scum!

[SupportSanity]

5. I'm ready to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of Ukraine.

Anybody with me?

Be ready to watch Europe if this happens.

Game of chess.

[blue-wave]

7. I'm with you

Let's also rename every street in front of every Trump named property "Ukraine Way."

[DENVERPOPS]

16. Ukraine way....hell

Putin Way

[blue-wave]

24. My thinking on this

was that it will piss Trump and his followers off every time they have to give the address.

[blue-wave]

6. Yup. And Vance is in Europe meeting with the Vatican

and the Italian Prime Minister (she was just at the White House) and who knows who else is on the agenda.. Trump is attempting to set this up to make Ukraine look bad. This will never play with me. The Russians committed genocide against the Crimean Tatars, clearing the peninsula for ethnic Russian settlement in 1944. The Russians play the long game, they never stop with their imperialistic ambition. So here we are today and the United States will be condoning a land grab through genocide. This would be so very wrong.

[yellowdogintexas]

13. and before the genocide against the Crimean Tatars, there was the Holodomor in the 1930s

from Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor
The Holodomor,[a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine,[8][9] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.

[blue-wave]

14. Yup

And the Russians want all of The Donbas, the area where The Holodomor primarily happened as well as more. I have said from the beginning of this war, give Ukraine everything it needs to chase the Russians out of ALL of Ukraine.

[yellowdogintexas]

17. Agree 100 % I keep seeing these videos on YouTube about the advances Ukraine is making

destroying important bridges, supply depots, tanks etc. I have seen 3 different ones about Russians who moved into the Crimea after 2014. These people are apparently either leaving to go back to Russia or sending their families out of Crimea. In regular media, we see any victory the Russians eke out and what it did to the target area, we have to go to YouTube to see anything about Ukraine's progress.

Personally, I think Putin is pushing so hard for this cease fire or whatever you want to call it because he knows his goose is gonna be cooked if it goes on much longer.

[mdbl]

8. Trump is pure evil and so is his toadie Vance

There is no other way to describe those two.

[DallasNE]

9. How Is This Not A Replay Of Neville Chamberlain In 1938

When Chamberlain ceded part of Czechoslovakia to Hitler? How did that turn out for Czechoslovakia and the world? I can't think of anything that would be more stupid than this proposal from Trump.

[Mister Ed]

10. Here's how: Chamberlain, though he erred terribly, was not a groomed German asset. Trump is a groomed Russian asset. n/t

[dsc]

12. Actually Chamberlain had constraints that Trump doesn't

The UK had no desire or ability to prosecute war which is the only thing that would have stopped Hitler. He was trying to buy time and to the extent it gave the UK time to build radar installations and the US to send weapons it might well have helped make the difference.

[moniss]

11. It follows the warlord type thinking

of Crumb the 1st who seems to believe that if you can kill enough people then any land or resources are "rightfully" yours.

[dchill]

15. Spare us from this vicious, vengeful traitor!

[Figarosmom]

18. Not his decision.

It's Ukraines decision. It'll be justice the Gulf of Mexico. No one but MAGAS and putin will see it that way. The UN will reject it.

[BidenRocks]

19. By what authority can chump

give up another's sovereign territory?
Like getting us involved in Ukraine beyond supplying weapons.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Unless you are insane.

[womanofthehills]

20. Crimea's population is mostly all Russian now

“What percentage of Crimea is Russian?

According to the article, the population composition in Crimea is as follows:

– 82% Russian
– 10% Crimean Tatar
– 3% Russian and Ukrainian equally”

https://www.ncesc.com/geographic-faq/what-percentage-of-crimea-is-russian/

[ToxMarz]

21. He likes to redraw maps with his sharpies.

Maybe he can relocate it to the Gulf of America with a hurricane headed straight towards it at the same time.

[RainCaster]

22. Until the GOP grows a spine...

Yes. This is still a thing. The major party that controls both houses, SCOTUS and the White House knows damn well that Ukraine is the innocent and agressed party. Any capitulation is a direct result of Russian influence.

[ReRe]

23. OK. Now I think I understand this evil SOB

Just think of anything good about our country, and that is what he's going after.
I look at this as more or less a declaration of war on Ukraine.
There are not enough words in the English language to express the depth of hate
I feel for that monster.

Outa here till my BP comes down.

ReRe

[TomWilm]

25. Well, that was always in the cards ...

... though Trump is an amazingly bad player.

While walls were still crumbling all over Eastern Europe in 1991, Crimea held a referendum on autonomy, and voted decisively for the restoration of the Crimean ASSR as a subject of the USSR. This was not seen as a vote to stay in the Soviet sphere, but as the only possibly step toward autonomy. Then happily the USSR imploded.

Inside the Ukrainian independence, Crimea was now part of Ukraine, but retained its new autonomous status and pushed forward for more. In 1992 the Crimean parliament established a Crimean constitution, and in 1994 elected its own local President. At a new Crimean referendum in 1994, 78% voted for greater autonomy.

In March 1995 the Ukrainian parliament unilaterally scrapped the Crimean constitution and abolished the post of President of Crimea. Then the Crimean parliament was forced to define a new constitution, dictated by the Ukrainian parliament. So, there were not much love between Crimea and Ukraine, and Ukraine did very little to earn it. The Crimean wish for more independence were squashed, and the peninsula has not forgotten that...

Russia, Ukraine and the Western powers did nothing to dream up a possible broad solution. Since the Soviet collapse all the simmering conflicts of the old East block borders were just pushed under the carpet. And the nice vision of a common security structure, for all of Europe, is now squashed in favor of militarization all over...

Just a short lesson on forgotten history. A possible better solution for Crimea could have been to gain a neutral status, like the Åland Islands, an autonomous region of Finland. Former part of the Russian Empire, now a demilitarized and neutralized zone.

[Martin68]

26. Bastard!

[Kid Berwyn]

27. Thanks, Putin.

Krasnov like clockwork.

[ShazzieB]

28. HOW DARE YOU, YOU EVIL ORANGE HELLBEAST?

Of all the stupid, stupid stunts he has pulled, this has to be one of the stupidest!

No, I'm not really surprised that he would do something like this, but to him, I still say.....

[LetMyPeopleVote]

29. Zelensky reposted a 2018 statement by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

Link to tweet

Zelensky reposted a 2018 statement by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which reads:

“The United States reaffirms as policy its refusal to recognize the Kremin's claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force.”

[Torchlight]

30. Appeasement. Didn't work then. Won't work now.

Idiots and Russian oligarchs will argue for it. No one else will.