The marines could have made the Russians pay a price for their conquest, but did not:
Russian troops used stun grenades to force their way into a Ukrainian marine base in Crimea early on Monday, overrunning one of the last symbols of resistance left after Moscow wrestled the peninsula away from Kiev, Ukrainian officials said.
The Russians fired weapons as they charged into the compound in the port city of Feodosia, and Ukrainian officers were taken away for questioning, a soldier inside and a Ukrainian military official told Reuters.
The 1st Separate Marine Battalion was called Ukraine's best unit, but nobody will remember the stand at Feodosiya--or at any other last stand that would write a page of Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression.
Would Finland be free today or a province of Russia if they hadn't fought when any rational calculation of the correlation of forces said they must be doomed?
We can't help anybody who won't fight.
