The systemic failures of Russian aggression, including its naval component, force the occupiers’ propagandists to try to look for a fake “light at the end of the tunnel”, which naturally looks as implausible as possible. In this vein, the “collected opinions” of the so-called “Sevastopol scientists” from such a notorious mouthpiece of the invaders’ propaganda as “ForPost” are typical.
“Professor” Alexander Irkhin, who was previously exposed by us, is known not so much for his stay at the criminal “Sevastopol state university” as for his past “forecast” that “the coronavirus will help bring back the USSR” now says that “Crimea found itself in the epicenter of a hybrid world war” and that supposedly “to keep the Caucasus is impossible without political stability and the retention of the Crimea”.
Criminally calling for “control of the entire northern Black Sea region,” Irkhin now dreams of the aggressor’s plans to “make everything west of Odessa friendly”, that is, he directly announces new provocations of the Kremlin against Romania and Bulgaria and the criminal goal of “talking about the delimitation of influence in the Black Sea between Russia and Turkey”.
At the same time, criminal Irkhin’s “colleagues”, Olga Moskalenko and Natalya Demeshko declare that “the battle for the Crimea will be existential for Russia” and that “without Crimea, Russia will cease to exist as such”, and also announce new criminal speculations of the Kremlin on the “Crimean Tatar issue” and “conflict of ideologies” in Turkey. However, in these “geopolitical” fabrications, the aggressor’s propagandists “prefer not to remember” such a factor as the Armed Forces of Ukraine. These “expert publications” look especially tragicomic against the backdrop of the aggressor’s obvious failure to blockade the Black Sea ports, controlled by Ukraine, and the news about the Ukrainian special forces taking control of the drilling platforms of “Chernomorneftegaz”.
