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A bridge is needed to get to Crimea from the East. No bridge is needed to get to it from the Northwest. A smaller bridge is needed from the Northeast.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

My mental acuity on Sunday morning needed more coffee. Yes, there is that tiny isthmus that barely, just barely, lets Crimea qualify as a peninsula. Yes there is a rail line of sorts. Russian occupiers had to build a new bridge a few dozen miles to the east, in the occupied territory on the mainland, so they could get trains carrying any significant weight that far. Another report I saw last night said that the track on Crimea is in such sorry shape that they have to restrict trains to 10 MPH in places. And Ukraine has knocked it out a couple of times, too. Not lately. Not worth the trouble? Not exactly a substitute for the Kerch bridge, which accesses Russia directly.