[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Putin was perfectly capable of keeping any NWO/Soros/WEF influences out of Russia without invading Ukraine.

I mean, what has he really accomplished in that regard anyway? By purporting to annex those regions of Ukraine, and making them part of Russia, all he's done is expand Russia's border. It is still adjacent to Ukraine, and whatever ills he may have feared would flow across the old Ukrainian borders into Russia would still flow across the new Ukrainian borders into Russia.

The annexation undermined the exact argument you are trying to make.

[Jan_Sobieski]

The annexation undermined the exact argument you are trying to make.

Good point. I didn’t expect annexation. I expected a series of buffer Republics to guard help Russia’s southern Gas Fields. That seems to have changed when fighting escalated. It would appear the Eastern and Southern Ukrainian Republics wanted Russian annexation for the assurance of Russian Protection. Not sure what the next phase of this is…