Russia's only warm water ports are on the Black Sea in the Crimea region of Ukraine.
They've had an agreement with the Ukraine to operate out of those ports for a long time. Most of the residents of the Crimea region are of Russian ancestry.
There was no problem with the arrangement until the CIA went in and stirred up a buncha chit.
There's a lot of crazies in the American letter agencies. As has been demonstrated, they answer to no-one and they like to keep chit stirred up.
The vast majority of America's elected government knows their place. They know not to speak out against the deep state. If they do, they don't keep their cushy, high paying jobs very long.
If someone actually gets elected President that doesn't kiss deep state ass, they end up getting treated like Trump does.
If you don't know what that is,...just turn on one of the cable news networks right now,...this minute. See what they're saying.
Change channels,...then check back in a few hours. They'll still be saying it.
At 3AM tomorrow morning,..when you get up to piss,....turn on a cable news network.
They'll still be talking about it.
Sevastopol had been a crucial Russian warm water seaport since Catherine The Great's time, and Russia has considered it part of greater Russia since then (1784). They had a good working arrangement with Ukraine SSR since WWII and could have maintained pretty much the same arrangement now, but Putin knew feckless Obama would blink and piss down his leg if Russia annexed Crimea, so he annexed it.
Well,.....no.
Two factions in Ukraine. Those who want to join the EU,...those who don't.
It eventually resulted in almost enough conflict to call a civil war. Of course, the American alphabet agencies decided to get in on it and stir it up even more than it already was.
Russia decided to annex Crimea to protect it's deep water ports in the event that the pro EU rebels took over the government.
