Crimea is important because it's the only warm water port that Russia currently owns (it leases some out of Syria, which is why that civil war was so important to them). Without a warm water port, they can't import/export year round in an efficient manner (they have to use ice breakers in the north several months a year to inefficiently make up the difference, and even then can't power project their military into the med or atlantic nearly as easily).

Satanists and gypsies don't have their own country, shall we start carving off parts of other people's territory to accommodate them and give them a country of their own? Where's the Theodore Hertzel of the Uighurs or Sufi Islamists at? They don't have a country of their own either. Even the African slaves we brought to the US stuck around after the civil war despite the pogroms they endured. They didn't just carve off a chunk of Liberia for themselves and "go back to Africa" as was often suggested back then--including from Lincoln at one point if I recall correctly.

It's not that I'm against Israel holding onto land, it's that I'm against Israel holding onto its war conquests while denying statehood for some other groups of peoples. Why do the Jews deserve self-determination and statehood while the Palestinians don't? (I ask this as an American Jew btw)