@dave This is precisely what I was telling everyone back in 2014, to the ones who were repeating this stupidity: "B-b-but we need Crimea because Black Sea fleet. To deter NATO". This fleet is just sitting ducks for Turkey, a NATO member state, who has a sizeable fleet there that will make short work of the rusty Soviet boats. If anything happened in these waters, this fleet can't even leave without Turkey's approval as they control the straits 🤷