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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
If your referring to the oil and chemical pipelines Uncle the Russians started making plans round Odessa a few years ago when they had the energy spate with Ukraine and Odessa is too far into Ukraine for Russia to risk any sort of military involvement. Russia's political class do not want a military entanglement in Ukraine as well as Chechnya and Putin still has too many allies within the military for some hard liner to go off the rails. Putin and wider Russia just want a buffer from the west they don't want it on the doorstep adding more to the problems Russia already has.
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No, perhaps I should have expanded. Odessa and Sevastopol are vital to the existence of the Black Sea Fleet (albeit a shadow of it's former self) and my belief is that Putin and his minions would see Ukraine divided before entertaining the prospect of losing such a key, strategic location. Either that or effect some kind of arbitrary annexation as the Soviets did with the unsightly wart on the landscape that is Kaliningrad.