No way will Russia give up Crimea. The people there don’t want Ukraine.
Don’t bet on that.
“No way will Russia give up Crimea. The people there don’t want Ukraine.”
Yes. And with Finland and Sweden joining NATO, basically surrounding the Baltic Sea with NATO members, you can bet that the Russian people will put a greater value on Crimea than ever before. You might even conclude they’d consider it’s loss an existential threat. Any serious effort to “liberate” the peninsula with US/NATO involvement would escalate this thing into a whole new danger zone. All to satisfy the Neocon warmongers’ appetite to do yet another of their brilliant regime changes (which, ironically, is exactly how we got into this mess).