Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Why Russia took Crimea first" video.

  1. That, and it did genocide on the original population.
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  2. Putin only wants Crimea to use it as a springboard for subjugating Ukraine, apart from the natural resources. From Crimea he can control export from Odessa, Mykolaiv, the Donetsk river, and the ports on the sea of Azov. Especially if he also controls Snake Island, which controls the approach to the Danube. The argument that Russia needs a safe, ice-free deep water port is false: the port of Novorussia also meets those requirements. Which is where the Russian black-sea fleet is now holed-up after Sevastopol became too dangerous for them, making this argument moot.
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