“...and why did he annex Crimea?”
Warm water port. Decades or longer of severe cold is coming, freezing northern Russian ports.
Yes of course. 10 days to Syria by sea.
“...and why did he annex Crimea?
Warm water port. Decades or longer of severe cold is coming, freezing northern Russian ports.”
1790s to be specific. They would no more let Sevastopol be a NATO base than we would give them Norfolk. For bonus points ask who the Light Brigade was fighting in Crimea in 1854?
Silly to harp on about Crimea. Glad it didn’t fall to the Nazis.