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
Yeah, I was surprised to find out that Crimea has tried to declare autonomy within Ukraine or secede from Ukraine more or less every three years between the destruction of the CCCP and the 2014 coup. The coup just finally created enough of a strategic crisis for Russia that Crimea was finally able to break free from Ukraine.