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
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44642451?seq=2
Naval War College Review, 1993.
This might seem counter to what I'm saying given the paper predicts an urge from the Russian Federation to gain warm water ports:
Crimea would certainly count as one of those but let's be real it's not the most valuable of warm water ports given the Bosphorus and a friendly Turkey isn't a guarantee if I'm a Russian policy planner. Also keep in mind that I'm contesting the idea that warm water ports have been central to the history of Russian Foreign Policy which includes both Tsarist and Soviet Russia, neither of which in reality prioritised it as much as it's been made out to be.
Thank you, i'll read through this later.