Graphic from Contemporary Issues & Geography: INVASION OF THE CRIMEAN PENINSULA
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Nice army you got there, Vlad. It'd be too bad if they got bottled up in that chicken neck peninsula, wouldn't it? Armies have had historically hard times trying to fight in The Crimea. Look at the map!
Posted by: Casey Klahn at March 1, 2014 4:43 PMOh yeah? Who's going to bottle them up?
Posted by: pfsm at March 1, 2014 9:49 PMHistorically, Russia has never lost a war of invasion. But it has never won a war of aggression. [This, from a Russian friend who emigrated here.]
Posted by: Smokey at March 2, 2014 10:57 AM
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