If you ask where the world is hottest now, it must be Ukraine, and today we will take a look at how Ukraine has become the hottest arsenal in the world step by step.
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To say that this Ukraine, ah, is actually a very important part of the former Soviet Union, the strength of Ukraine at that time is only a little worse than Russia, the former Soviet Union to treat Ukraine is also absolutely out of the heart, not only the former Soviet Union's important industry are placed in Ukraine, even the construction of military equipment is also placed in Ukraine, so today even if Ukraine has declined, but his military industry is still very good, and even our first aircraft carrier Liaoning was bought from Ukraine at that time. Including our current J-20 aircraft equipped with domestic engines, our domestic engine research is actually inseparable from the help of Ukrainian engineers, so although there is no progress in Ukraine's military manufacturing level after the collapse of the Soviet Union, but closely relying on the military foundation of the Soviet Union, Ukraine's military industry is still very strong today.
Ukraine was not without reason for the preferential treatment of the Soviet Union at that time, the natural conditions of Ukraine itself are very good, not only is the terrain in Ukraine relatively flat, most of the land of Ukraine is located in the eastern European plain, and the fertility of his land is very good, two-thirds of the land area of Ukraine is black land, accounting for 1/4 of the total black soil in the world. So this kind of place is naturally suitable for the development of agricultural production, Ukraine is the world's third largest grain exporter, known as the European granary.
After talking about the basic situation in Ukraine. Let's look at the causes of the Ukrainian crisis, this matter has to start from the geographical location of Ukraine just mentioned, Russia's land area is very large, more than seventeen million square kilometers of land looks very large, but there is a very big problem, that is, the entire Russian territory is very flat, there is not much obstacle, in addition to the Caucasus Mountains and the Ural Mountains, there is no strategic barrier, this terrain distribution is very much at a loss when fighting, It means that as long as your mechanized troops are strong enough, almost when attacking Russia, it is a horse, especially when European countries attack Ukraine, if but from the terrain point of view, it is a unique advantage, of course, other european countries are also facing this situation, so they are also afraid of Russia's one-horse Pingchuan attack down, we all know that when Hitler attacked the Soviet Union, the tank troops could break through hundreds of kilometers at once, if it were not for the weather, it was likely to break the entire Soviet Union. So Russia has been looking for a strategic security position, the terrain is what you can't change artificially, then you can only increase your strategic depth as much as possible, expand the horizontal distance of your territory as much as possible, because there is no mountain obstacle, the only thing that can make Russia have geopolitical security is distance, in other words, the larger the depth of the land, the better. For this reason, one of the things that Russia has done the most in history has been to constantly engage its neighbors to the west and south, to expand its territory to increase strategic depth. Not only is Russia doing this, but nato is also, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO's continuous eastward expansion is actually trying to increase its strategic buffer as much as possible.
In the early days of history, there was no Ukrainian country, no way, when the strategic position of a country is more important, the more it becomes a region of contention between all parties, making it difficult for you to achieve independent development. Ukraine became an independent country after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and after independence Ukraine has one of the most important assets, Crimea, of course, the current Crimean Ukraine has been lost, resulting in the current Ukraine has actually lost a very important position, Crimea is known as the Pearl of the Black Sea, who controls Ukraine who has a very important sea outlet to the Sea, Crimea is 1768) - between Russia and Ottoman Turkey in 1774 between the war snatched, But the Crimean War of 1953 completely destroyed Russia, when Britain, France and the Kingdom of Sardinia attacked Russia together, and even killed the commander of the Black Sea Fleet at that time, and Alaska was because Russia was not financially supportive when defending Crimea, resulting in the Russians having to sell Alaska to the United States at a low price, but in the end the Russians still did not hold Crimea, this war made the Russians not only lose Crimea, but also lost Alaska, legend has it that after the war, At that time, Tsar Nicholas I committed suicide by taking poison because of shame, so in this war, the Russians lost the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, lost Crimea, lost Alaska, and even lost their Tsar, after the October Revolution in 1917, the Soviet Union gradually went to the world stage, and in 1918, the Soviets retook Crimea, which was a clearing of the humiliating history carried on their backs. But how Crimea belonged to Ukraine again, this is actually very dramatic, originally Crimea directly under the management of the Soviets there is no problem, but in 1954, in order to celebrate the "300th anniversary of the alliance between brotherly Ukraine and Russia", the Soviet Presidium under the leadership of Khrushchev actually gave Crimea to Ukraine, when everyone belonged to the leadership of the Soviet Union, it was not a big deal, just like today's Laiwu was assigned to Jinan, everyone will not feel anything strange, But the Soviets never expected that this inadvertent act of that year would cause great trouble later, and as soon as Gorbachev came to the top, he actually disintegrated a huge Soviet Union, Ukraine became independent, and the pearl of the black sea in Crimea actually became the territory of Ukraine.
Although Crimea returned to Ukraine, but Russia still obtained the Crimea Sevastopol military port, and crimea is actually mostly Russian, but after all, at this time Crimea is someone else's territory, Russia must have been uneasy, in order to stabilize Ukraine, Russia has to provide Ukraine with very cheap natural gas every year, but even so, Ukraine still makes a fuss about this matter every five minutes, and the United States, another country in this world, does not stop, Ukraine has always said that it will take back the Savastopol military port for the Americans, which Russia cannot accept under any circumstances, which is equivalent to the Americans directly putting the muzzle of the gun on Russia's neck.
For many years, Ukraine has always had a voice is to join NATO, join the European Union, in order to get shelter, in fact, in the final analysis is that Ukraine is also insecure, after all, there is a Russia next to people really feel insecure, and the climax of all this happened in 2014, February 2014, Ukraine has a president named Yanukovych, when he announced that Ukraine will not join the European Union again, but soon the domestic opposition overthrew him. After the overthrow of Yanukovych, Ukraine is completely out of control, the trend of the whole country has become to actively join NATO, which has completely touched russia's bottom line, after all, according to the agreement of the Minsk agreement that year, NATO cannot expand eastward, but NATO has actually violated this agreement long ago, constantly encroaching on the countries of the former Soviet Union, approaching Russia's territory, if Ukraine also joins NATO, it is equivalent to NATO missiles can attack Russia in five minutes, and Russia decided not to endure. In early March 2014, the Crimean parliament declared independence from Ukraine, and on March 16, Crimea held a referendum and passed a resolution with a 96.77% absolute majority (Crimea is predominantly ethnic Russian): the Republic of Crimea joined the Russian Federation. On March 20, 2014, Russia ratified Crimea's accession to the Russian Federation. Later, it also developed into the last time we know that Putin directly sent troops to occupy Crimea, and now Russia is still sanctioned by Western countries because of this matter, but you want to say that Russia is doing the right thing, it is difficult to say, because indeed in history Crimea is Russia's territory, in one, the people who live in Crimea themselves are mostly Russians, and they voluntarily join Russia You can't say that it is wrong.
Then later Ukraine we all know that a comedian to be the president of Ukraine, this president will no longer consider the historical origin between Ukraine and Russia, insisting on joining NATO, then Russia can only shoot, Chen Bing Ukrainian border, of course, the reason why Putin chose to shoot at this point in time, there are also a lot of considerations, as for why Putin will choose to shoot decisively today, we will continue to talk about it in the next issue.