Posted on 09/20/2022 4:16:19 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
One of Russian President Vladimir Putin's top allies said on Tuesday he favoured holding referendums in two eastern Ukrainian regions in order to formally make them part of Russia, a move that would seriously escalate Moscow's confrontation with the West.
The statement by Dmitry Medvedev, a former president who is currently deputy chairman of the Security Council, marks a hardening of Russian rhetoric on Ukraine and is the strongest sign yet that the Kremlin is considering going ahead with a plan that Ukraine and the West have said would be illegal.
He made his comments as Putin ponders his next steps in a nearly seven-month-old conflict that has triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and after a battlefield defeat in northeast Ukraine.
The leaders of the Russian-backed self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic (LPR) and Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) a day earlier discussed combining their efforts to hold referendums on joining Russia.
Officials in the Russian-controlled southern Kherson region on Tuesday also requested a referendum on joining Russia.
Medvedev suggested that incorporating the LPR and DPR into Russia - collectively known as the Donbas - would be an irreversible step once completed. Anyone then attacking them would be assaulting Russia itself which would, under its own law, be entitled to respond in self-defence.
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“move that would seriously escalate Moscow’s confrontation with the West.”
LOL.
It’s nice to know what Dimitri has to say about things.
I wonder what the Ukes think of his plan?
Who cares?
Why are Russians such pricks?
Why?
Why do I want to know?
Because your country is such crap, and your sole mission is life is to export your crap to other countries.
You do realize that’s why the entire world hates your country, don’t you?
What makes you guys such pricks?
And then the West will be on Russia’s borders again, a self-perpetuating war.
I particularly enjoyed the assumption that a completely free and fair referendum proposed by a Ponzi scheme runner from Russia and a failed politician who never got more than 5% in any election he stood in, would guarantee a win for Russian annexation.
If Russia pulls this off, it should be kicked out of the Soviet Union legacy seat at the UN Security Council.
LOL. I failed to mention the US kicked out of UN over Kosovo.
An important note. Russia is not coming to the American border to lecture you how to run your railroad.
‘The whole world’ is very tiny. Find the coverage of the conflict in China, India, Africa, and Latin America. They think otherwise.
Medvedev = Putin
Medvedev has to give voice to Putin’s wishes. Or else!
Russia is gonna annex Ukrainian territory currently (and increasingly) occupied by Ukraine? What does that do for them other than make them look weaker with Ukrainian troops on their soil?
What the hell are you talking about?
Putin to call general mobilization except for residents of Moscow and St Petersburg.
Literally.
Russia is a banana republic without the bananas.
This was always the solution to this crisis and could have been easily negotiated from the outset for minimal loss of life all around. Russian peoples in Eastern Ukraine should be joined with Russia instead of living under Ukrainian rule and bombed on a regular basis by Zelensky and globohomos.
It’s just further proof that diversity = death and instability. Nations are formed by common identity, common heritage, common language, common religion, etc.
Luhansk and Donetsk fake referendums to join Russia later this week.
Those regions are mostly Russian speaking so why not.
Perhaps the Ukrainians should have done a better job shelling the sh*t out them for 8-years prior to them asking for Russia to intervene so there would have been less of them? /s
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