“Russia’s incursion into the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine has drawn attention to its naval base in Sevastopol and its Black Sea Fleet, a modest force of aging ships that military analysts say Russia is trying to modernize.”
Putin
wants to get control of Sevastopol and all the other former Soviet Navy
bases on the Crimea peninsula. Seizing the Crimea to protect all the
ethnic Russians living there from becoming oppressed by the new Ukraine
regime gives him a ready made justification for expanding Russian power projection. Putin will join
the ranks of Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great , Catherine the Great,
Joseph Stalin and all the other Russian rulers who expanded the Russian
Empire.
By Epictetus
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