(06-20-2019, 08:23 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-20-2019, 08:11 PM)Predator Wrote: There are a whole bunch of sovereign countries that speak Russian and were once part of Russia. Does Russia have the right to annex them too? Does Britain have the right to annex India because it historically was part of the British empire and most of them speak English? Both empires seized control over these lands around the same time.

The Ukraine and Russia already had a treaty allowing the Russian Black Sea fleet to be based in Sevastopol.

Why would they need to annex if they already had access? Because their interest wasn't the port, it's in what's underground and the oil rights that extend out into the Black Sea.

The entire Ukraine crisis was precipitated by Ukraine threatening to join the European Union and NATO.
Russia found paying an EU/NATO country for military access to a port that they consider to be their own anyway to be totally unacceptable, similar to how the Packers would not trade Brett Favre within their own division.