Crimea, Ukraine - Obama Presidency Oral History Back Crimea, Ukraine Index / Locations Transcripts Leon Panetta ...played out with what they did in the Crimea , what they did in Ukraine, what the... Frank Rose ...place, but after [the annexation of] Crimea in 2014, that's when all hope kind o... Charles Kupchan ...started their invasion of Ukraine, Crimea , the Donbas. And there was a divid... ...around Russia's invasion of Crimea ? The issue of American intelligenc... ...a lot was that the situation in Crimea and in the Donbas got worse. I woul... ...turn to the Ukraine and annexation of Crimea . This occurs shortly before you joi... ...walking into? If I recall correctly, Crimea was already under Russian control... ...and maybe even further, all the way to Crimea ; to connect, have a contiguou... Show more... Victoria Nuland ...before [the 2014 Russian annexation of] Crimea . So the question was, could we updat... ...course, I think that when you come to Crimea , we underestimated what he was willin... ...Council]—both said, “Watch out for Crimea .” And we essentially got laughed of... ...and very soon thereafter we're into Crimea . Let's turn to the annexation o... ...turn to the annexation of Crimea , which prompts this conversation abou... ...weeks before they actually move on Crimea , we can see it, and everybody know... ...to be able to stop it. So we know that Crimea will go, and the question is how blood... ...folks who were directly responsible for Crimea and Donbas policy, as well as some o... ...Putin was up to certainly sunk in after Crimea . But then there were apologists wh... ...there were apologists who said, “Well, Crimea has gone back and forth between Russi... ...perceive as Russian activity, in the Crimea and then Syria and then with thes... ...and other things that they wanted. And Crimea was hugely patriotic maneuver, as wa... Show more... Anthony Gardner ...July of 2014. We're going to touch on Crimea . That's definitely something I want t... ...which was the Russian annexation of Crimea in 2014. The US tried to design ... ...forces—taken control of key parts of Crimea and had already supported its friendl... ...Could you repeat it? The annexation of Crimea , what was the reaction to that by th... Thomas Holst ...ask you about the Russian annexation of Crimea in spring of 2014. Did those event... ...happened in this 2014 event where Crimea was taken. But, more importantly, i... Richard Nephew ...campaign against Russia after the Crimea annexation. How did those two processe... ...Is it possible to compartmentalize the Crimea problem from the Iran nuclea... ...concerns about that. But the fact that Crimea seemed to be a sui generis space, an... Ernest Moniz ...guess. It's important context that the Crimea incursion by Russia was early in 2014... ...after February 2014, when the Crimea events occurred, so the United State... ...were, almost a year and a half beyond Crimea . How are we going to get Russia t... Related Topics go to the Transition Transition go to the Elections and Campaigns Elections and Campaigns go to the Arts and Humanities Arts and Humanities go to the Immigration Immigration go to the Sub-Saharan Africa Sub-Saharan Africa