i didn't want to be displaced, thanks to the slobbering pope who only became a saint because he was dying in a full public spectacle drooling on the throne... he wouldn't be a saint right now if he decided to become a pope emeritus and gave his death a privacy, no, instead it was "baby papa want a napkin or the shroud of turin to wipe that agony off, the slurred punctuation of papa's speech?"*
it made sense to confiscate crimea, after all st. petersburg was the out-dated "window into europe" after being replaced by kaliningrad, so russia's need for a window into asia minor with the poked eye capacity of crimea; all that sea, all that sea before us, you can dig underground tunnels and still see for miles across the black sea!