Comments by "PNH 6000" (@PNH-sf4jz) on "Russia Hides Losses as Abrams Tanks Arrive" video.
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Then you would be erasing an important harbour and docking infrastructure that is used for military, commercial and pleasure craft. The Port of Sevastopol is not simply defined as a Russian port, but is Ukrainian, following the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine in 1954.
"Sevastopol Marine Trade Port is a port in Sevastopol. It is located mainly at the Bay of Sevastopol, and at smaller bays around the Heracles peninsula. The port infrastructure is fully integrated with the city of Sevastopol and naval bases of the Russian Navy and the Black Sea Fleet.
"Mostly the port belonged to the national government of Ukraine, while portions of it are controlled by the private sector. [not verified in body]. The port came under full Russian control when the Crimean peninsula, then under Russian military occupation, {ostensibly} joined Russia, after a highly criticized {illegal} referendum on March 16, 2014, known as the 2014 Crimean status referendum, which was soon followed by the {illegal} annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation."
"Strategic value
The Port of Sevastopol is considered a key hold [clarification needed] for maritime routes between the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, and, therefore, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. The port is one of the few warm deepwater ports available to Russia in the Black Sea. Russia leased the port from Ukraine, until its {illegal} annexation in 2014. Access to the port is considered one of the main factors that sparked the 2014 Crimean crisis between Ukraine and Russia, and Russia's subsequent military intervention on Crimea."
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{Words in brackets added by me, PNH}
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Unfortunately, there are excesses, such as Musk's apparent intervention in the Ukrainian attacks on the Russian Black Sea fleet. However, in our democracies, all people have a right to hold and present their opinions. Some of those opinions may not be palatable to many of us. However, it is better that they remain in the open, rather than "going underground" and being far more difficult to follow.
By going underground, it has been demonstrated that some views and organisations actually become stronger and more virulent in their projection of vile, vitriolic and malevolent speech and behaviours.
In addition to the internal machinations and activities of organisations and bodies, being in the open allows people holding different points of view to be aware of the existence, pervasiveness and types of alternative views held by others, whether friendly and sympathetic, or oppositional and possibly antagonistic, from any perspective.
Therefore, I believe that it is important for people to be able to hold and express, in public, whatever views they believe are appropriate in the circumstances in which they exist. That is unlike authoratarian regimes, where any views that are contrary or different from those of the regime are carefully quashed by punishment of various forms and even death.
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