It's another Cabal controlled state; with drug running, human trafficking et al.
It is also extremely strategic and the original Holy Land. Birthplace of the holy mother of King "Jesus" who actually existed, apparently and according to scientific historical research into historical chronology. cf Fomenko mathematician, statistician and physicist w. his team It's probability. But that's where they lived. Around the Black Sea. Not Palestine.
Only makes sense since "Jerusalam" was next to a body of water. Right next to it. In those days for Empire style travel it was necessary. The ones who simulated it in Palestine surely knew. Certainly they have their eye on Crimea. We are told the nobility of Europe for many centuries made pilgrimage to Crimea to the Church of the Nativity, which is on Sebastipol cliffs.