The “Battle” of Crimea: Inside Russia’s Playbook to Capture the Peninsula

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In 2014, during a government crisis in Kyiv, Russia executed an operation to annex the Crimean peninsula. It was wildly successful for the Kremlin, preserving control of its Black Sea Fleet base and raising the popularity of Vladimir Putin at home. But it also serves as the prologue to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The lessons the Kremlin learned from the operation were all wrong, setting up Russia to make numerous errors in its attempt to capture more of Ukraine.

0:00 A Familiar Story...with a Twist
1:57 Crisis in Crimea
6:38 Launching the Crimean Operation
9:30 Taking Control of Crimea
13:10 Russia's Annexation of Crimea
17:09 Epilogue
19:25 ChatGPT Writes an Outro

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