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Putin Announces Annexation of Four Ukrainian
Regions after ‘Sham Referenda’

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 9/30/2022 10:51:59 AM

Russian president Vladimir Putin announced in a speech on Friday that Russia would be formally annexing several regions of Ukraine that it continues to occupy. Since invading its western neighbor in February, Russian forces have suffered heavy losses, and have more recently been pushed back toward their own border after a Ukrainian counter-offensive found success. In spite of the recent military setbacks, Putin asserted that “the citizens of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporozhia, and Kherson have become our citizens forever,” directly addressing Ukraine’s government and “its real masters in the West.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Lake Dweller 9/30/2022 10:55:21 AM (No. 1291899)
Kind of like the 2020 election in the US?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Ribicon 9/30/2022 10:57:19 AM (No. 1291903)
Sham elections, can't win a war. Russia becomes more American by the day.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: HPmatt 9/30/2022 11:03:23 AM (No. 1291911)
Like Serbia’s 2006 referendum for independence.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: DVC 9/30/2022 11:10:48 AM (No. 1291922)
This was Putin's plan, following in Stalin's footsteps. Stalin murdered all the original farmers in those regions in the 1930s, and then replaced them with ethnic Russian peasants who were compliant to his communist demands. And now Putin gets the children and grandchildren of those Russian peasants, living on the land of murdered Ukrainians, to "vote" to "rejoin" Russia. Yep, lots of ethics and freedom there. NOT.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: watashiyo 9/30/2022 11:53:44 AM (No. 1291990)
Well it's about time. U.S. should give it up and tell Zelinsky to resign and return the billions he stole.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: JHHolliday 9/30/2022 12:14:54 PM (No. 1292019)
Putin max annex those regions but I suspect he’ll be facing years of unrest and guerrilla warfare.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: hershey 9/30/2022 12:29:08 PM (No. 1292049)
It's not who votes, it's who counts the votes...
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Kate318 9/30/2022 1:26:48 PM (No. 1292121)
I believe that the same people who told us there was no election fraud in 2020 are the same ones telling us there was fraud in this election.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: smokincol 9/30/2022 2:55:45 PM (No. 1292215)
aha!! Dominions strikes again!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Rubinski 9/30/2022 4:18:21 PM (No. 1292260)
A lot of people who live in those areas are ethnically Russian so it makes sense they would vote to join Russia.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: chance_232 9/30/2022 5:25:48 PM (No. 1292294)
RE#11. And those that would vote no have either been killed, fled the conflict, been rounded up and shipped out by Russia or are fighting with Ukraine. It was a sham vote and everyone knows it. But he now has his "pretext" to escalate the conflict. Question: what do the Russians think about this?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: LaVallette 10/1/2022 5:55:04 AM (No. 1292423)
The results of the Referenda in the four regions are positively Stalinesque: all well over the 95% mark in favour. Wonder id there was a provision on the ballot paper for a "NO" answer,
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Richard from Norwood 10/1/2022 6:25:51 AM (No. 1292425)
To No. 11; Hey Rubinski; What are you nuts? Do you have any idea what is going on within Russia today? Most all of the men are trying to flee Russia before they get conscripted into the army to fight in Ukraine. You must truly be a CNN, MSNBC, CBS, ABC, and NBC watcher and are blinded by the light of the truth being perpetrated upon you.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: red1066 10/1/2022 9:37:05 AM (No. 1292490)
Prior to the war, the regions that have been annexed were controlled by Russia and had people who wanted to remain as Russians.
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Reply 15 - Posted by: bigfatslob 10/1/2022 9:40:06 AM (No. 1292491)
That region is so mixed up and unstable Putin doesn't know what he just 'annexed'. Putin can't just have parts of Ukraine he has to take it all. Putin is living in the past thinking like Stalin but hey, why not try anyway? When the cancer finishes Putin off, he can die a happy Soviet.
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