> a port that doesn't freeze in the winter other than Murmansk They have had ports that don't freeze: Novorossiysk and Vladivostok. I grew up in Eastern Europ

> a port that doesn't freeze in the winter other than Murmansk They have had ports that don't freeze: Novorossiysk and Vladivostok. I grew up in Eastern Europe, and I see it as the ages-long Russian policy -- more territory = good. All the way from Mongols conquest, they kinda continue what Mongols did.