Western suspicions that Russia is following the “Crimea playbook” in eastern Ukraine are way off the mark. To begin with, President Vladimir Putin never considered Crimea to be part of Ukraine. His mission there, as he saw it, was to reunify Russia and correct two historical injustices: Nikita Khrushchev’s transfer of the peninsula to Ukraine from Russia in 1954; and the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991, which left Crimea in now independent Ukraine. That mission is now accomplished.
西方懷疑俄羅斯正在烏克蘭東部沿用「克里米亞策略」，這種懷疑遠不是事實。首先，俄羅斯總統弗拉迪米爾•普丁(Vladimir Putin)從來沒把克里米亞視爲烏克蘭的一部分。他認爲，他在該地區的使命是重新統一俄羅斯，並糾正兩個歷史性錯誤：一是1954年尼基塔•赫魯雪夫(Nikita Khrushchev)將克里米亞半島從俄羅斯劃歸烏克蘭，二是1991年蘇聯解體——這導致克里米亞留在如今獨立的烏克蘭手中。現在，他的這一使命已經完成。
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