The coast freezes for close to half the year and that means they cant have good ports there and trade and commerce is affected.
2/n
Russia is vast. It is unimaginably massive. It is 11 timezones long & has a 36000km long coast and 17 million sqkm in area
Then, why does it still fear losing support of Ukraine and desire it's landmass so badly?
The answer is 'Geography'
A simple history explainer ๐งต
The coast freezes for close to half the year and that means they cant have good ports there and trade and commerce is affected.
2/n
Here comes the answer - Ukraine.
Ukraine has a coast along the Black sea and connects to the Mediterranean which opens up the entire world.
Russia so dearly desires this.
Ukraine got caught in the middle. Eastern part of Ukraine supported Russia & the west with EU
Russia had a lease to use this warm water port & run its ships for trade.
But if Ukraine went into EU or NATO, there was the risk of losing this port.
So, all the more reason for Russia to not let Ukraine go also to the west.
Ukraine dropped the EU plan but it had already lost Crimea
'If you compress the spring all the way to it's limit, it will snap back hard. You must always remember this'
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#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W
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#KrishnaLeela
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#talesofkrishna https://t.co/E85MTPkF9W
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