Vlad wanted a port on the black sea and got it via crimea. He want to keep his port in Syria.
Everybody forgets that the Syrian thingy started because the Saudis wanted to run a gas pipeline through Syria to Europe cutting off the Russians from exporting Natural Gas to Europe. McCain and his fools were 100% behind it. Destabilizing Syria was McCain and Obama’s idea.
And the Black Sea port was a Russian navy base since the era of Catherine the great 1783. This was 5 years before George Washington was sworn in as President.
And we thought an EU/Soros/State dept coup is going to result in a Ukraine that gives that Sevastopol navy base to NATO. The plan was too cute by half. That would be like us giving Norfolk navy base to China because Virginia went Democrat or something.