It makes no sense to expect Russia to part with the Crimea again. This convinced the teacher of the US Naval College in Newport Lyle Goldstein. In his opinion, this is understandable to everyone who has a little interest in history. Professor recalls that the peninsula became Russian in 1783. Since then, the Russians have repeatedly defended it against attacks from the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France. And during the Second World War there were fierce battles of the Red Army against Nazi Germany, notes Goldstein in an article published in the publication of the National Interest. So old and literally the blood ties of the peninsula Crimea with Russia can not be torn by the gesture of the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, who in 1954 passed the Crimea to the Ukrainian USSR. Goldstein points out that everyone understands perfectly how much the gesture was rash and did not involve real consequences. Therefore, it is absurd to build a strategy for relations with Russia, relying on the "Crimean question".

According to the American professor, "A deeper knowledge of history could help US politicians stop the process of falling into a chasm of relations between Russia and the US, which pulls both Ukraine and Europe and threatens stability throughout the world," Goldstein said..

Russia was reunited with the Crimea by decision of the majority of the inhabitants of the peninsula, which they expressed in a referendum in March 2014. Ukraine refuses to recognize the legitimacy of this process.