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Re: Crimean airports

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Sun, 02 Mar 14 8:07 PM | 53 view(s)
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Second possibility is annexing Eastern Ukraine. But then he faces the strong probability of a war and the ending of Russian trade with the West.

I still think it's all about Russian access to the Mediterranean. Same as with Syria where he is propping up the regime to secure a Mediterranean port for his navy.

Methinks he sees these revolutions as a quiet method of undermining Russian power.

All the stuff about protecting Russians is pretext to protecting a key artery from the River Don, through the Sea of Azov, past the Crimean Peninsula, through the Black Sea and the Bosporus to the Mediterranean. Just as important today as when the Vikings used the Don to travel from Denmark to the court of the Byzantine emperor.

I suspect Putin's had his eye on the Crimea for years.


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Re: Crimean airports
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Sun, 02 Mar 14 3:03 AM 		Msg. 15237 of 54959

Actually, looking at the map, I think this is about Russia's access to the Mediterranean.

Their entry to the Black Sea is only possible if Crimea is secure.

I doubt they'll invade the rest of Ukraine.

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