Mark<p>Where is Crimea? And other things you, & US presidents, should know</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/Crimea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crimea</span></a> roughly 26 times smaller than Texas & not located “in the middle of the ocean” — it's a [bloody] peninsula in Black Sea, around 27k sq km in size. It the same size state of Massachusetts or Haiti</p><p>Crimea is connected to Ukraine by land, where it meets <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/KhersonOblast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KhersonOblast</span></a>, which Russia partially occupied since 2022</p><p>As well as <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/BlackSea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BlackSea</span></a>, the <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/peninsula" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>peninsula</span></a> lies on western shores of <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/SeaOfAzov" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SeaOfAzov</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kyivindependent.com/where-is-crimea-and-other-things-you-and-us-presidents-should-know/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">kyivindependent.com/where-is-c</span><span class="invisible">rimea-and-other-things-you-and-us-presidents-should-know/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a></p>