jhungary
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Actually Turkey control Black Sea, well, they are sitting at the exit of Black Sea....Strategically baltic nations aren't a threat. They are small nations that can easily be flattened by missile strikes from Russia. Also, Belarus and Kalingrad are a chokepoint for any land reinforcement from europe, so these nations can easily be blocked for european landmass.
But Ukrain is strategically crucial. Not only for the controll of the black sea but also it would put NATO just 400 km away from Volgograd where most of Russian oil transports into the Russian heartland.
There are more reasons to why Ukraine is absolute necessary for Russian security but I will leave at this
As for the Baltic, isn't that exactly the reason why Latvia/Baltic need Air Defence system? And as I mentioned before, missile strike can't really level anything, you can literally see the effect of missile strike in this war.
So does the oil field in the Caucasus, you can attack from Turkey and north to reach there, and they can just as easy to take Georgia and Up to secure the oil field..
The only thing I can think of that is important to Russia is the industrial base, but I think it will hardly be any left and it also comes to question whether or not that base or even what you mentioned before worth all the sanction that comes with and the isolation that comes with?