Moreover they have that big naval base in Sevastopol. But I thought Mr. Putin did some things to sweeten the russo ethnic mix to make it look better when they moved.
Anyway, that was the price we paid for putting zero in there. There was no one to stop him and like you say, they have the historical claim to it. I believe they took it from the murky Turks.
There are a lot of Tatars in Crimea, mohammadans. WHat ethniciity I don’t know; but I do know that almost all mohammedans are descendants of those who were forced into it.
Not long into the Ukraine crap, Hunter Biden got made CEO or some sort of head dude of the main natural gas company - in eastern Ukraine, which wanted to break away. The other side of Ukraine was being very nasty to the Russian type Ukranians for some tome, in various ways.
Ukraine has a serious Nazi history. Even though during the war the Germans invaded and were horrible to them. In Poland the Germans imported Ukranians to work in the camps as the Poles didn’t want to and Ukes were noted for their butcher temperament.