Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "Can Ukraine take back Crimea?" video.

  1. "Everything began in Crimea, and everything will end in Crimea." - made me think of it... I started virtual flying in the Bay Area with F/A-18 Interceptor in the early 90s, but the first one I really binged hard was Jane's USNF with a Crimea map and campaign (the similarities to the current conflict are whopping BTW, there's a full playthough series on damsonn's channel). And around the same time, Eagle Dynamics dropped their first, Flanker - with a Crimea map that was part of the series until Lock On Flaming Cliffs. Only with DCS they moved further east, weirdly enough just at the time when Russia waged their war efforts there. People have been wanting the Crimea back in the sim since then, but all Eagle Dynamics was able to state was "We've actually been asked by the Russian gov't not to include Crimea, so we won't anytime soon" somewhere around the time frame of 2018-2020. Just piece things together these days, this has long been planned and there are subtle signs everywhere. I just hope that Ukraine will be able to end the conflict like that for real, but I would not want DCS to end by implementing that map at some point (the map may come, not the end of the sim)... ;)
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