Crimea is strategically vital to Russia. However, since the annexation, Crimea’s water supply had become increasingly perilous—being supplied mostly by a Russian canal system that is much less efficient than the Ukrainian one that used to supply the region. If Ukraine were able to destroy this canal network, either by using its air forces or by sabotage, the only way Russia could avoid mass starvation and death in Crimea would be by agreeing to Ukraine’s terms—in exchange for which, Ukraine would agree to once again supply Crimea with water.
It is a terrible thing to have to consider: But it likely would work even if it did so at terrible human cost.
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Ukraine wouldn't do that, because Ukraine claims Crimea. And even if Ukraine did that, Russia wouldn't care.
Russian propaganda has been incompetent. Instead of this bullshit about poor Donetsk and denazification that nobody takes seriously, the Russian lords and their representatives could appeal to Western dissidents by presenting themselves as heroically defying Globocorp's New World Order. But they're too dumb to see that this is what they should be doing.