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The black sea is pretty much useless as a warm water port. The Bosporus limits the number of military ships that can pass through it by treaty and unless you co
by thrown_30004 5y ago
The black sea is pretty much useless as a warm water port. The Bosporus limits the number of military ships that can pass through it by treaty and unless you conquer Istanbul there's nothing you can do about it.
Crimea was 90% ethnic Russian as were the majority of areas occupied by rebels. This is an ethnic conflict that started when the majority Ukrainian areas decided that they could rule the country without the majority Russian areas.
I imagine what we will see is North Ukraine being left as a majority Ukrainian speaking country and South Ukraine a majority Russian speaking country. Ironically enough North Ukraine then becomes small enough to join the EU.
- DoingIsLearning 5y agoOk I understand the throwaway as it as controversial point. I have a couple of questions for someone not that familiar with Ukrainian history: - Was the south ukrainian population relocated there as a soviet 'settlement' or were they always historically there? - Is there any political acceptance among north ukrainians to cut their loses and lose territory in order to be able to join NATO/EU?
- twelve40 5y agoKharkov, Odessa, Nikolayev, Sumy, Kherson, Dnepropetrovsk, Donetsk, Lugansk, Mariupol, Krivoi Rog, Elizavetgrad (aka "Kropivnitsky"), Aleksandrovskaya (aka "Zaporizhzhia") - most of the cities in the East and the South were founded by the Russians by direct order from the Tsars starting from 1600's. We can dig deeper and find out that in 1897, 78% of Kiev the capital's population was non-Ukrainian, so no, this is not some Soviet invention. If anything, Stalin and Kruschev gifted Lvov (1940), Ivano-Frankovsk (1940), the entire Crimea (1954), Uzhgorod (1945), etc etc to Ukraine, so some thanks to the Soviets should be in order.