Berlin Airlift for Crimea?

[Linkon]

Maybe too late at this stage to be effective…

Any thoughts?

[CWO Marc]

I don’t think the situations are comparable.  The Berlin Airlift was intended to bring essential supplies for day-to-day living into a small, well-defined enclave that was entirely under the control of the western Allies and that was being blockaded by the surrounding Russians.  The Crimea is a large peninsula that is undergoing a messy territorial dispute, with fragmented areas of control, and whose problems have little or nothing to do with logistics.