i’m sorry if this makes some users here feel old lol but i was a preteen and apolitical obviously when this happened so i genuinely know nothing about this situation. does it have anything to do with nato? i’m just curious to get a marxist analysis of this situation

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Others have all come in with good reasons. But to summarise

    • Russian sympathetic region that is arguably historically more culturally Russian than Ukrainian

    • access to the rail route over Crimea is essential for supply to eastern Europe and Transnistria even in peace

    • Grain producing region, though not as much as Donbass which is the primary producer for Eastern Europe.

    • most importantly, Sevastopol. He who contols Sevastopol controls the Black Sea, and even the west has a vested interest in preventing Turkish dominance of the area.