Crimea Loses Power Temporarily, Ukraine Loses Crimea ForeverBy Tony Cartalucci Image: Power lines providing electricity to Crimeas 2 million residents were intentionally downed by Neo-Nazis and Kiev-backed Tatar groups. They have used violence to achieve a clearly political goal the textbook definition of terrorism. It would be Russia through an underwater cable that would begin restoring power to Crimea. While rhetoric regarding Crimea is still strong on both sides, it is the actions of both Ukraine and its NATO backers versus Russia that appear to finally be answering the Crimea question if there even was such a question. In the first week of December, the International Business Times would report in their article, Vladimir Putin inaugurates Crimea energy bridge during surprise visit, that: President Vladimir Putin has inaugurated the first leg of a power line between the Russian mainland and Crimea in a surprise visit to the peninsula. His visit to the strategically important territory comes after the region plunged into darkness over widespread power outage. Crimea, which Moscow claims to have been hit by Ukraines energy blockade, will start receiving power supply from Russia once the electricity bridge is completed. The undersea cable project was scheduled to have been completed by the end of December but it has been brought forward after Crimean power supply was knocked off. While Crimeas dependency on Ukraine for power and other necessities could have been used as a means of proving that the peninsula exists as an integral part of Ukrainian territory, by cutting power and being unable to rein in the terrorists who for over a week blocked repairs from the Ukrainian side, Kiev has all but proved it has no interest or ability to administer the region. That the terrorists in fact are backed by not only special interests now occupying Kiev, but by NATO and the United States in particular, illustrates the punitive measures Ukrainians and their neighbors face for falling on the wrong side of NATO and its proxies in Kiev. It also illustrates once again the impetus that drove the people of Crimea to wisely choose ascension into the Russian Federation rather than to remain a part of Ukraine in the first place. In a pattern that is becoming all too familiar, the United States continues to make statements contrary to reality. US Vice President Joseph Biden was reported to have called on Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine despite the obvious act of terrorism carried out against the people of Crimea and Kievs clear role behind the terrorism. Bloomberg in its article, Biden Says Illegal Russian Occupation of Crimea Must End, would report that: Vice President Joe Biden called Russias annexation of Crimea illegal in a demonstration of solidarity with Ukraines government that signaled the U.S. wont bargain away its support for the country to win Russian cooperation in the fight against Islamic State in Syria. The United States stands firmly with the people of Ukraine in the face of continued and I emphasize continued aggression from Russia and Russian-backed separatists, Biden said in Kiev on Monday, following a meeting with Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko. Papers like The Moscow Times with deceptive headlines like, selfnewss Block Crimea Power Line Relaunch, would reveal in the bodies of their articles that these activists were in fact the heavily armed, Neo-Nazi paramilitary organization Right Sector, notorious for its front line role in NATOs proxy war on eastern Ukraine. Image: The heavily armed fanatics of the Neo-Nazi Right Sector, when not intimidating political adversaries in western Ukraine, or killing them in eastern Ukraine, have more recently been implicated in cutting power to some 2 million civilians residing in Russian Crimea. The Moscow Times would report: selfnewss have prevented Ukrainian repair crews from relaunching one of the four power lines supplying Crimea with electricity from the mainland, despite Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stating earlier that Kiev would allow power flows to resume, Russian and Ukrainian media reported Monday. Members of the far-right paramilitary Right Sector group blocked the first attempt at re-activating the Kakhovskaya-Titan line on Sunday night, the RIA Ukraine news agency and depo.ua news site wrote the following morning. Either Kiev has no control over what takes place in its own territory or it has ordered Right Sector and other groups to initiate the blockade of Crimea. Either way, Vice President Bidens calls for Russia to return Crimea to Ukrainian control appear irresponsible at best. With literal Neo-Nazis cutting power to 2 million civilians a blatant war crime seems only to further vindicate Russias actions regarding Crimea and the decision of the people of Crimea themselves to seek a place within the Russian Federation. The illegitimacy of not only the regime in Kiev, but of NATO who created it and to this day perpetuates its existence, has helped erode the very principles both are now trying to appeal to in order to maintain the territorial integrity of Ukraine. Beyond Ukraine, similar scenarios are developing across all of Eastern Europe, where as NATO attempts to expand closer and closer to Russias borders, it is finding it increasingly difficult to find allies who are not extremists with ties to fascism and/or Nazism. By allying itself with these radical elements, those populations subjected to their NATO-backed domination of politics, economics, and security are more likely to turn toward Russia either as Crimea did, or as the break-away republics of Donetsk and Lugansk have. Beyond Eastern Europe, the continual violation of Syria and Iraqs sovereignty by NATO is making it exponentially more difficult to appeal to sovereignty and territorial integrity in regards to Ukraine. The West has repeatedly called for the Balkanization of Syria into several weaker regions. As the balance of power turns in the region, and even globally, the West may find this contempt it has shown toward national sovereignty and the territorial integrity of existing nations backfire on it when its own allies face the same prospect of being carved up. Some may argue that Crimeas ascension into the Russian Federation itself was only possible because the NATO-driven lawlessness that it occurred in the midst of. As this lawlessness continues, it is all but guaranteed that Crimea will only be driven deeper within the Russian Federation. Tony Cartalucci, Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazineNew Eastern Outlook. Before asking Russia to return Crimea to Ukraine, Biden must read history to relize that Russia,, under the Soviet Union transferred the administration of Crimea to Ukraine. Crimea was a war lotting of the zarists in the 18th century but if war lootings have to be returned, then US must return Puerto Rico to Spain and compensate Spain for its lost of Cuba and the Philippines. 