I do not know anything, probably should be quiet, but I sometimes see things in funny ways.
In this situation, I will assume the position of the Ukraine, where the Ukraine is my "house." Given this, here we go.
I have friends that are my neighbors both to the east of me, and to the west. They both have nice houses too, and am proud to be their neighbor. I want to get along with both of my neighbors, and am happy to interface my family's interests with each.
Over the years, my neighbors to the east had things that they wanted to store in my garage. They really didn't have room for them, and needed the access that I had to the street (sea.) I said ok, I'll be glad to lease you the space in my garage (the Crimea.) All was fine. I knew that my eastern and western neighbors had often disagreed in the past, but they were all getting along fine now. I also knew that they could each be kind of "pushy," and arrogant as hell at times.
Well, the father got older, the sons came along, and soon they they wished to run the house. The father didn't like it, but it is the way of things. The father pissed and moaned about this, and decided to leave. The eastern neighbor saw this, and came to his defense, not so much for him, but for the leasing agreement they felt might be threatened. The western neighbor was quite good, commercially, and offered much to the sons that now ran the house. This awakened an old mistrust between both neighbors.
My neighbor, to the east, then sent his sons to my garage. It was no longer my garage then, as they voted for it not to be. What in the hell can I do about this? I look to my western neighbor, but he only says that I am right, and will quit selling twinkies to the neighbor in the east. It gets worse.
Having had success with my garage, they start that shit up with my house. I believe it was only to get me and my western neighbors to shut up about my garage, but the loss of twinkies is not much of a deterrent to more "adventurism."
Silly story ends, sad situations not mentioned, but really this needs to be knocked off. Decades of progress in all realms are threatened, and for what?
My best to those, anywhere, where you are prevented from just being able to live, and plan for your future.
Chuck