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So...this Putin speech...they're going to hold referendums in those Donbas regions which could lead to them being annexed by Russia...and that will likely be pretty soon..and then any attack on them is an attack on Russia...and full scale war. Scary shit really, but I guess that's the idea. Could be a big moment coming very soon...

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11 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

So...this Putin speech...they're going to hold referendums in those Donbas regions which could lead to them being annexed by Russia...and that will likely be pretty soon..and then any attack on them is an attack on Russia...and full scale war. Scary shit really, but I guess that's the idea. Could be a big moment coming very soon...

It kinda feels like a new phase of this war doesn’t it? He’s talking about nukes again and mobilisation etc. It’s not good. 

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1 hour ago, steviewevie said:

So...this Putin speech...they're going to hold referendums in those Donbas regions which could lead to them being annexed by Russia...and that will likely be pretty soon..and then any attack on them is an attack on Russia...and full scale war. Scary shit really, but I guess that's the idea. Could be a big moment coming very soon...

no different to attacks on Crimea right now, those are attacks on Russia.

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7 minutes ago, steviewevie said:

so...what are you saying...he's bluffing because this happened before and nothing happened?

yeah, its about the spin he wants to give the Russian people and not about what he might do. he's just mobilised Russia so he needs reasons for it, especially as its been done without urgency.

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2 minutes ago, squirrelarmy said:

Putin does have experience with rigging referendums to get the results he wants.  

he probably knows the famous Stalin line about how its about who counts the votes

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2 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

Putin does have experience with rigging referendums to get the results he wants.  

He very much comes across as somebody that acts like a really bad loser when things don't go his way. 

That's pretty much how this started tbf. Ukraine had put a lot of energy into a trade deal with the EU that was close to being signed in 2013, when under pressure from Russia, their then-leader announced he was pivoting to a "Eurasian Economic Union" with Russia and Belarus, which lead to the protests in 2013/14, the overthrowing of said leader, Crimea and the long road to what happened in February, and if anything, has made Ukraine even less willing to return to the Russian sphere of influence than it was ten years ago.

I mean, what a fucking mess. Nobody wants a nuclear war, nobody can win a nuclear war, and yet we're getting far too close to one. It's like we learned fuck all from the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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