across europe, the carpathian mountains. from the baltic sea here to where the car pcarpathians star this is flat ground. through that flat ground have come napoleon and the french, hitler and the germans, and many others who invaded russia by that direction, and that makes russia nervous. therefore it seeks to plug that gap by occupying it, or to not, where the ground opens up into flat ground, it wants to at the very least dominate it. in 2014, its reaction was to occupy and then annex crimea, part of ukraine, and its warm water port of sebastopol, which gives the russian fleet access out of the black sea into the mediterranean, from there to the great ocean lanes of war. it also fomented civil war in the donbas region to create a mini buffer zone. to understand russia s strategy
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