[Dr. Franklin]

The irony is, Putin started this war to claim Crimea for its navy, but had to transfer its Black Sea Fleet out of Crimea because it can’t defend it.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The irony is, Putin started this war to claim Crimea for its navy

Sevastopol has had a Russian naval base since Ukraine was created in 1991.

Sevastopol has had a Russian naval base since Catherine the Great seized Crimea from the Turks in 1783.

Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022 because Donetsk City was close to being overrun by the AFU.

[Kazan]

No, the irony is that we fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine in 2014 to cut Russia off from a naval base in had operated since before the US Constitution was written.