[oblio]

> Crimea is the only "warm water" port that Russia has access to to gain access for the end and the Atlantic.

This is bullshit propaganda, sorry. Russia has over 1000km of coast at the Black Sea, to the East of Crimea.

[HWR_14]

Turns out I was pretty wrong about that. I thought Novorosiisk was in Crimea. Sorry to spread misinformation.

I will say, even if it were true, that wouldn't justify what Russia is doing. But I can see how it would be useful for domestic consumption.

[oblio]

It's not your fault. They've been peddling this, as well as conquering Constantinople for the same reason, since the time of Peter the Great.

Its straight out of Imperial Russia's propaganda book. Kind of proof that Russia since ~1600 has always been the same country, just with a different coat of paint (the one between 1917 and 1991 happening to be red paint).