https://dnyuz.com/2023/01/18/u-s-warms-to-helping-ukraine-target-crimea/
“The new thinking on Crimea — annexed illegally by Russia in 2014 — shows how far Biden administration officials have come from the start of the war, when they were wary of even acknowledging publicly that the United States was providing Stinger anti-aircraft missiles for Ukrainian troops.
But over the course of the conflict, the United States and its NATO allies have been steadily loosening the handcuffs they put on themselves, moving from providing Javelins and Stingers to advanced missile systems, Patriot air defense systems, armored fighting vehicles and even some Western tanks to give Ukraine the capacity to strike against Russia’s onslaught.
Now, the Biden administration is considering what would be one of its boldest moves yet, helping Ukraine to attack the peninsula that President Vladimir V. Putin views as an integral part of his quest to restore past Russian glory.”
I am whipping through my remaining bucket list items at a much faster speed these days.
I think an attack on Crimea will be the final countdown item.
I've read that Russia considers Crimea where Christianity was born for greater Russia, and based on the growing Christian Nationalism going on there, it's not something they're likely to give up easily, if at all.