Bear Stearns wrote:Shrillland wrote:
Why is having the main bridge between Europe and Asia Minor important...let's just ask pretty much every conquering force of the last 2,500 years. Oh, and plus we don't need a southern gateway for Russia to start spilling influence into the Balkans, they've enough problems as it is.
You'd need to provide evidence that 1) Russian has imperial machinations in that region and 2) that it's any worse than the current situation
Fair enough, Russia's got enough on its plate with Ukraine and their failing grip on Transcaucasia without having to worry about their southwestern edges.