ethnic russian majorities nonetheless if new russia is putin's end goal further invasion of ukraine would be a real possibility and this should worry the west not just because it will involve the illegal occupation of NUMBER_TOKEN of ukraine's population most of whom aren't ethnically russian but because the occupation of southern ukraine will gift russia significant strategic and economic advantages southern ukraine represents sixty percent of ukraine's gdp and donens colon accounts for about twenty percent thanks to its significant coal steel and energy capacity control over southern ukraine would also improve russian influence in the black sea the black sea plays an important role in russian geopolitics because it's the only place that russia can have warm water ports i.e ports that are navigable all year round russia therefore relies on the black sea and specifically the port of sevastopol for exporting russian oil and gas as well as housing much of its army and despite the annexation of crimea russia has seen its influence over the black sea wane over recent years bulgaria and romania have both joined nato and ukraine and georgia have both also declared their intent to join the alliance add to that turkey russia's historical nemesis is apparently considering unilaterally modifying the montreux convention which dictates the usage of the turkish straits given that turkey doesn't look particularly keen on russia at the moment erdogan's currently selling turkish drones to ukraine after all this bodes particularly badly for putin however if putin can successfully occupy new russia he might be able to tip the balance of power in the black sea back into his favor you get the point russia's troop build up on the ukrainian border could mark a return to the new russia policy of NUMBER_TOKEN and if putin is indeed pursuing novel russia this would factor into how the west interprets and reacts to any subsequent aggression so what do you think should the west be worried about putin's wider ambitions in southern ukraine and is the west doing enough to deter putin generally let us know your thoughts in the comments below and before we finish remember if you use code novo russia then you can get a free pin badge when you buy any two in the store so if you want a quick gift for a friend ahead of christmas then check out the store and this might be your last chance for some christmas delivery anyway that's linked below and your support directly helps our journalism so thank you special thanks to our patreon backers who make videos like this one possible and if you want to see your name at the end of videos then you too can pack us on patreon the link to that is in the description
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