Crimea has been Russian since 1783. Potemkin built it for Catherine the Great and populated it. Before that it was an Ottoman outpost. But originally, it was probably Minoan or Mycean.
It's been Russian for 350 years.
Sebastopol is home to the Russian navy. In geopolitics, Crimea is of literally vital importance to all Russia.
This war is aimed at taking away Russia's access to the Black Sea, containing weakening and changing the govt, and breaking up the Russian-speaking culture.
It's just because America will always want to knock out potential rivals. Its worry is a Russia-Germany, ie European, tie-up. Next, it will be the turn of the Chinese. We cannot go on living like this, it is a hell-on-earth.
The world is - imho - at the most dangerous moment in recorded history, mainly because the escalations will eventually go nuclear. We all need to step back, calm down and start talking. We need to think about what you might call our "universal connection" ... because if we're not careful, pretty soon we won't be connected any more!
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