Posted on 09/20/2022 6:46:53 PM PDT by Nextrush
Moscow has made a decision how to proceed in the proxy war with NATO in the Ukraine.
We do not yet know what the decision is.
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin will hold a TV speech at 8 pm Moscow time (17:00 UTC) (Since changed to 8 am Moscow time (05:00 UTC, 1 am Eastern US Time) followed by an announcement by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
In July Putin has held a press conference or speech where he said with regards to Ukraine something like: "We haven't even started yet."
It may be that Russia will do that now.
That a decision had been made was noticeable.
Yesterday the parliaments of the Luhansk and Donetz People's Republics suddenly requested their government to immediately launch referendums about the republics accession to the Russian Federation. Today Denis Pushilin, the head of the DNR government, announced that a referendum will be held on September 23 to 27.
Also yesterday the Russian parliament introduced amendments to the Russian Criminal Code which will increase the prison penalties for 'voluntary surrender', "looting', "non-fulfillment of military orders' during atime of mobilization, martial law and war. Companies who reject to produce for the military will also be penalized. The amendments passed their second reading in parliament today and will become law after a third reading.
If the LNR and DPR vote to become part of Russia, and if Russia accepts it, any attack on them will be an act of war against Russia...
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They keep delaying, is Putun dead or deposed?
We shall see Putin may be aiming for maximum impact on the European stock markets that will open right after he speaks.
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Window cancer.
And the lack of a speech is just getting a bigger audience.
Interesting. Estonia confiscating the guns of Russian nationals. Every former eastern bloc country would have to deport their own Russian nationals to show they mean business. Would they?
Funny article.
It states that no one knows what is in the speech.
Then it goes on for paragraphs telling you stuff about stuff that might—but probably won’t be in the speech.
We have to wait a couple hours…and we will all know. So sit back and relax.
Other than the nukes, Russia is the worlds biggest paper tiger.
Most of the Baltics, and Poland too, refuse all Russian tourists. Additionally showing a Russian flag or singing a Russian folk song in public gets one arrested.
The Russians sang at border stations a song that was illegal to sing in those countries. Katyusha.
https://t.me/alexandra_truth/1970
Attacking occupiers in those areas after the vote will be no different than attacking those areas before the vote.
Putin is even less likely to start a war with NATO than he was when this started.
Ukraine has already made attacks inside of Crimea. And Russia didn't do anything except bomb some more civilian residences and threaten to blow up nuclear plants.
There continues to be a risk that Russia does something to anger NATO and start a real war. Ukraine will be the least of their concerns if that happens.
They could do a move like Putin. Have them sign a loyalty oath or leave the nation. Then when Putin says he wants to protect Russians elsewhere, they just show Putin the loyalty oath which will also include they do NOT want to be part of Russia.
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