Whoever thinks Crimea can’t be defended isvery liable to get us all killed with that sort of thinking. Why are so many blind, totally blind, to the insanity at the root of the “Get Russia” obsession? It’s ruined a presidency, greatly weakened our own country, and will soon destroy the world as we know it if we don’t stop supporting the madness with our mindless consent.
No way will Russia give up Crimea. The people there don’t want Ukraine.
This poster has a hard-on for Putin and thinks one dead Russian soldier equates to weakness. Meanwhile, Zelensky spokesman days they would agree to Crimea being part of Russia.
Truly— anyone ever hear of Sebastopol? Emminently defendable... but they won’t be defending it from ukes.. they will attack overwhelmingly w/out regard to the numbers.
Crimea is a potential logistic trap, if the attacker is well supplied with modern precision missiles. The new GLSDB (fired from HIMARS) will do for the purpose. It has no land based logistic routes nor sufficient internal roads/highways. It’s ports are all small, other than Sebastopol, and that is in easy range of enemy systems north of Perekop.
The one bridge would be in easy range of GLSDB from the Melitopol area, much like the bridges over the Dneiper were to GMLRS.
It could easily turn into another Kherson bridgehead situation.
That is the technical military analysis.