Realities of Crimea War: Obama Unsettle, Calls for trans-Atlantic unity to isolate Russia

United State President, Mr Barack Obama made a rallying call Wednesday for countries around the world to defend the international order, which he says has been profoundly challenged by Russia’s annexation of Crimea and ongoing threat to the rest of Ukraine.

“Russia’s violation of international law, its assault on Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity, must be met with condemnation, not because we’re trying to keep Russia down, but because the principles that have meant so much to Europe and the world must be lifted up,” he said in a speech that was the main focus of his visit to Europe this week.

“So long as we remain united, the Russian people will recognize that they cannot achieve the security, prosperity and the status that they seek through brute force,” he insisted.

The address to Brussels’ diplomatic and political elite and selected European youngsters came at the end of a packed day of meetings with leading European Union and NATO officials in which the Ukraine crisis dominated.

Obama offered assurances to Poland, the Baltic states and other worried nations along NATO’s eastern frontiers that the United States and other members of the Atlantic alliance would defend them from any threat of spillover from Ukraine.

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