Yes.
It wont be tagged as him seizing the AO. Nope. It’ll be tagged, both by his and our media, as Russia coming to the aid of an oppressed minority.
The Ukraine won’t sit still for it. The legit portion of The Ukraine, anyway.
It will then turn into a full blown civil war much in the form of the Spanish civil war.
Poland has already, more or less, declared for the western Ukraine. I suspect Hungry to do the same soon.
The EU will interfere in their usual passive aggressive, cowardly and mealy mouthed manner as well.
Europe will write memos. It will not fight for the freedom of the Ukraine.
“It will then turn into a full blown civil war much in the form of the Spanish civil war.”
Could be. The unknown is which way will the Ukraine military go? And, will it align one way or the other in total or will it split along ethnic lines? Stay tuned this is gonna get nasty....
Also, the true natives like the Tartars and Greeks were kicked out in WWII by Stalin in a mass deportation, completely changing the demographics
The greeks in particular had lived in Taurica for nearly 3000 years until Stalin came along