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Is there oil? Other natural resources? Just a good strategic location to have a base? Just flexing muscle for nothing (unlikely)?
The naval base at Sevastopol.
I guess you don't remember a little thing called the Crimean War, in which "allied nations" stopped the advance of the Russians into the Black Sea and threatening the Dardanelles.
The Crimean Peninsula has been part of Russia for 230 years -as far back as American Independence. Russia has had a naval base there just as long -giving it access to the Mediterranean. About 60% f population is ethnic Russian over 75% speaks Russian as their native language. It's arguably more Russian than Ukrainian but in the mid 1950's Khrushchev added it to the Ukrainian SSR.
The Crimean Peninsula has been part of Russia for 230 years -as far back as American Independence. Russia has had a naval base there just as long -giving it access to the Mediterranean. About 60% f population is ethnic Russian over 75% speaks Russian as their native language. It's arguably more Russian than Ukrainian but in the mid 1950's Khrushchev added it to the Ukrainian SSR.
Sounds like what Hitler did with Czechoslovakia. Ethnic Germans and all.
Sounds like what Hitler did with Czechoslovakia. Ethnic Germans and all.
History repeating itself.
Sure. So what happens to your theory of doom when Russia doesn't start a world war like Germany did?
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