The Russia-Ukraine war, which broke out in April 2022, some people say, actually started as early as 2014. Because in 2014, the Russian army occupied the Crimean peninsula in Ukraine, and the Russian-Ukrainian war has already begun at that time.
Crimea is located on the northern shore of the Black Sea, which Russia considers to be a territorial extension to its southwest. The region is strategically located, and through its control of the Black Sea, Russia is able to further strengthen its strategic influence in the region.
So Russia has long coveted the Crimean Peninsula, so in 2014, after a long period of planning, it took the Crimean Peninsula almost bloodlessly.
Through the separatist forces in the Donbas region, Ukraine has been plunged into an eight-year war. Only then did it launch a full-scale attack on Ukraine in 2022, with the intention of taking the whole of Ukraine into its pocket.
Of course, the Russians have a beautiful idea, but the reality is cruel. Nearly two years after the war was fought, the battlefield situation is still scorching, and Russia has not only lost the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers, but also fled the Black Sea Fleet with its proud Black Sea Fleet.
What's more, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited Kyiv on January 12 and signed a security mutual guarantee agreement with Ukraine. This security mutual insurance agreement is actually a military alliance treaty, which means that the UK will directly intervene in the Russian-Ukrainian war.
Immediately afterwards, six European and American countries, including France and Germany, also began negotiations with Ukraine and prepared to sign agreements similar to those of the United Kingdom.
Russia's current situation is reminiscent of the same Crimean War provoked by Russia 170 years ago.
In July 1853, the Tsar** invaded Turkey and provoked the Crimean War. At the beginning of the war, the Russian soldiers raided and wiped out the Turkish Black Sea Fleet in one fell swoop. Turkey was defeated by Tsarist Russia, and Britain and France sent troops to assist to prevent Tsarist Russia from expanding southward.
The Anglo-French forces defeated the Russian army in September 1854 and landed on what is now the Crimean Peninsula, where the Tsar committed suicide the following year, and then the Russians declared defeat.
History is always so strikingly similar that people seem to see the situation again. The battlefield is still mainly Crimea, familiar scenes, similar plots. Even the protagonists are still those ones, but Turkey among them has been replaced by Ukraine.
Will the story of more than 100 years ago be repeated?