No. It has Sevastopol on it, it is one of the largest Russian military bases. In fact it has about 3 Russian military bases, or probably more, aircraft, naval, shipyards, troops. No they didn't annex it if it has about a 90% Russian population. Try doing that to anybody else. What happens. It's very complicated.

But your view is misguided.

However I might agree the Crimea presented a much larger problem to Ukrainian coastline. Smack in the center of it. It claims the surrounding waters. Now with the separation oblasts and Islands under Russian soveriegnity. Ukraine has no more coastline. Virtually none, any waters by Odesa have also disappeared with the nearby Islands also under Russian control.

By not recognising it was Russian is how this conflict began. Possession big bases on it, emphatically makes it Russian. It didn't need to annex it. It simply was. Annex was the two oblasts above it, and the two original separation oblasts next to Russia, these were in Civil war since the Ukrainian coup. A matter of due course occurred by rejecting it is Russian.

It is what it is. It's gonna take something else to bring peace.

No. It has Sevastopol on it, it is one of the largest Russian military bases. In fact it has about 3 Russian military bases, or probably more, aircraft, naval, shipyards, troops. No they didn't annex it if it has about a 90% Russian population. Try doing that to anybody else. What happens. It's very complicated.

But your view is misguided.

However I might agree the Crimea presented a much larger problem to Ukrainian coastline. Smack in the center of it. It claims the surrounding waters. Now with the separation oblasts and Islands under Russian soveriegnity. Ukraine has no more coastline. Virtually none, any waters by Odesa have also disappeared with the nearby Islands also under Russian control.

By not recognising it was Russian is how this conflict began. Possession big bases on it, emphatically makes it Russian. It didn't need to annex it. It simply was. Annex was the two oblasts above it, and the two original separation oblasts next to Russia, these were in Civil war since the Ukrainian coup. A matter of due course occurred by rejecting it is Russian.