During the last couple of days, the aggressor’s Crimean propaganda has been massively thrown into all sorts of “interpretations” and “reflections” regarding the publication of the American columnist Seymour Hersh, that the U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly “wants to cooperate with Russia in the development of the tourist potential of Crimea”.
On this issue, the fake “Crimean speaker” Vladimir Konstantinov immediately stated that allegedly “Crimea has enormous resort and tourist potential and investment attractiveness”, and that Donald Trump himself “is an experienced businessman”.
Other aggressor’s “talking heads” immediately stated, that allegedly Trump is thus trying to “find points of interaction” with Russia.
Naturally, the level of “source authority” in the form of Hersh would be the last thing these “expert circles” would publicly assess, but we will add that Hersh, who once exposed the American army in Vietnam, has over the years switched to increasingly conspiratorial themes, surprisingly coinciding with the methods of Russian intelligence.
It is enough to mention that in addition to speculations about the undermining of the “Nord Stream” and some unconfirmed alleged “machinations in aid to Ukraine”, Hersh, for example, publicly denied, to put it mildly, the repeatedly proven use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime against its own population.
Well, after the next “insider information” of Hersh was actually refuted in an interview by the President of Ukraine, and the US administration did not provide any confirmation of the “insider information” in a single tweet, the same occupiers’ propagandists switched to statements by Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the reduction of tourist flow to Crimea after 2014. And here it is noteworthy that no one shook the air with the usual “tens of millions”; as the propagandists “modestly” stated “in 2024, according to the operational data of Rosstat, the number of tourists accommodated in Crimean hotels amounted to 2.4 million people”, and that “in just ten years” of occupation “Crimean hotels received more than 20 million guests”, that is, less than 2 million annually.
Here the described “modesty” with the “halving” of the previously declared figures by the aggressor’s propaganda, is quite characteristically combined with the recent statement of the Crimean Gauleiter Sergei Aksyonov that he does not expect “the return of foreign companies” to the occupied peninsula, stating: “In theory, we are ready for everything, but the probability of this is low. These are great dreams. We must realistically assess what is happening and be prepared, first of all, for a negative development of events.”
However, as they gossip in the corridors of the “Crimean authorities”, the special “investment attractiveness” of Crimea has now been ensured by the aforementioned Konstantinov with his “nationalization” of literally everything that “lies around”, and therefore “the speaker is very lucky that this kwakkel has no relation to reality, otherwise the Foreman would have to be urgently replaced”.
