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The Legitimacy of Russia's Actions in Ukraine
London School of Economics and Political Science ^ | 03/04/2015 | Dr Björn Alexander Düben

Posted on 05/07/2022 12:29:38 PM PDT by CrazyCatChick

Spurious though Moscow’s claims for a ‘responsibility to protect’ may be, its intervention in Ukraine has ultimately been based in equal measure on Russia’s purported historical, ethnic, and cultural claims to Crimea and (less explicitly) to large stretches of south-eastern Ukraine frequently referred to as ‘Novorossiya’.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: agitprop; bjornalexanderduben; chechens; chechnya; hateamericafirst; putinlovertrollsonfr; putinsbuttboys; putinworshippers; rus; russia; russianaggression; ukraine; zottherussiantrolls
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To: CrazyCatChick
Did Russia invade a sovereign nation in March of 2022?

Did a US led coalition poke the bear into action beginning in 2014?

Are they still doing it?

81 posted on 05/07/2022 4:01:41 PM PDT by Right_in_Virginia ( )
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To: mac_truck

I was stating what needs to happen not what is going to happen. You have favored the American-hating invaders, rapists, and looters since day one. So you can take your cute map and stuff it.


82 posted on 05/07/2022 4:33:51 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: MalPearce
Unfortunately, that's totally utopian.
83 posted on 05/07/2022 4:37:31 PM PDT by Grzegorz 246
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To: Travis McGee

All that matters is not when parts were added to Ukraine but that Russia signed a treaty to respect those borders in the early 1990s. From then until 2014 there was no problem about the borders.


84 posted on 05/07/2022 5:37:02 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Grzegorz 246

Heh! Yes it is, and it’d only come about if every nation signed up to the idea of a different form of “great reset”. But we’ll see. Within 72 hours, we’ll know if all those Russians on state TV who seem hell-bent on restoring Stalinism have the stones for a nuclear launch. After all, nothing short of nuclear war seems off their table.

All the Putin puffers here must be completely oblivious to where this is going, if they don’t think we’re about to see Stalinism Redux in what we’d hoped 25 years ago would become a modern, forward-looking post-Soviet state.

Russian TV: a psycho like Beria is needed to restore the Stalin-like purges.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1523097022005403648

Russian TV: More land grabs, alongside the restoration of the Hammer and Sickle.
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1516183937311256580

Russian TV: NUKE THEM NOW! (What do you mean, we’re frightening even our own people by saying that? We can intercept any inbound nukes!)
https://twitter.com/JuliaDavisNews/status/1522213701813608448

Maybe Russian TV is just talking tough. But, these guys get their messaging direct from the highest echelons of Russian political power. If they all start jetting off to the Urals by this time tomorrow, that’ll be the indicator of an imminent real world field test of a nuke, by Russia, with the full support of the Kremlin hawks.

Hey, I know many Americans here could care less about that but I’d just ask them how free the USA will really be if it ends up dependent on BRICS and its allies, following a full scale China/Russia takeover of the Rest Of The World. There’s a serious risk of the New World Order being turned on its head - with Russia, China and North Korea becoming the dominant alliance, the UK occupying a Pissant Pariah State position vacated by Kim Jong Un, and America turning into the new Global Menace that needs to be contained like Russia was. All those shady figures behind the Bidens and the Deep State will follow their best interests, and that means they’ll pick the winning side - we already think they’re in hock to China, so they’re halfway there already.

One way or another, the free world isn’t going to be free for very much longer unless Russia loses the moral high ground.


85 posted on 05/08/2022 8:10:26 AM PDT by MalPearce
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