I forgot how narrow minded you where. I mean lets lay the cards on the table the sheer volume of funds frozen by the rest of the world that are Russia is significant. You seem to think that Crimea and their native population will want to stay Russian.... Crimean tartars hate Russians. If that bridge ever falls with it falls all of Russia's ability to control it.

Dont forget that all this drone stuff has been without the West. Now the west has removed any sort of restrictions on their arms being used into Russia. Reports of F-16's taking out Russian jets.... You really think that missing a 1/3 of their strategic fleet that mind you is designed to keep China at bay from not retaking their land in the Russian East on top of everyone else.

We have seen Russian groups already start pulling out of Africa as well. Loosing Mali is huge because of the gold they were able to extract.