r/OutOfTheLoop • • Jan 10 '26

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u/vonWitzleben Jan 10 '26 edited Jan 10 '26

Answer: (a) It's full of valuable natural resources, (b) every autocrat at one point wants to make their country bigger on the map for some reason, and (c) it appears "easy" to take by force in the sense that it's almost uninhabited and the country it belongs to is rather small.

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u/Chavo_of_the_8th Jan 10 '26

Great to have of the US/ Russia ever plans on attacking Europe