“Tell your Brandon/Soros to leave Ukraine.”
LOL. At least Brandon and Soros, if they’re in Ukraine at all, are there BY KYIV’S INVITATION. Russia’s presence in Ukraine is solely at the invitation of its own implanted stooges.
Most of them are non-Ukrainian Russian speaking nationals on holiday (across Donbas and Kherson the separatist leadership includes four Russian nationals who came in with the green men, one Transnistrian, two Moldovans and a guy from Crimea whose actual nationality is a complete mystery).
One leading dim bulb in the separatist ranks successfully ran a PONZI scam until it got busted and has absolutely no other notable achievements in his life. He’s a fraudster and a crook, nothing more.
Another is a pro-Russian hack who ran twice for office in a pro-Russian region, and never got more than 5 percent of the vote even amongst the Moscow-leaning population. The turnout in the second election he stood in was one of the lowest in the history of the province and he STILL came last. Taking that into consideration, the only people who voted for him were himself and his mom.
Enforced Russian hostile takeover with an iron fist is a childish fantasy in the vodka-soaked heads of the Moscow Muppetry.
Reality bites. In the last week, in formerly Russian held, Russian populated areas:
- The separatist conscript groups went on strike with over 300 surrendering in one go
- The Kadyrovites and the Wagners fell out big time over who got to keep the loot
- The TikTok batallion got busted while lounging around in a wood, doing nothing
- Dozens of minor officials linked to the running of DPR/LPR militias fled into Russia
- Russian settlers (imported people offered free loot and squatters’ rights by the separatists) went home
- A Russian-held village welcomed the Ukrainian army in as liberators. Population: Russian Ukrainian.
- Russia’s response to the above? How very dare you switch sides, here’s some shiny white phosphorus. That’s not exactly from a chapter of “How to win friends and influence people”.
Russia hasn’t just burned its bridges with Ukrainian Ukes, it’s fast losing the support of the Russian Ukrainian population because they’re acting like toddlers having tantrums.
If you can’t work out why Russian Ukrainians don’t like white phosphorus showers, don’t like the Chechens, don’t like Wagner, don’t like their menfolk being forced into uniform, and sure as hell don’t like even ONE of the scumbags that Moscow put in charge of occupied areas, then of course you’re going to think these referenda are going to go Russia’s way.
Sportsman’s bet: these referenda get delayed due to unavoidable logistical complications, e.g. no way to organise them in just 3 days, no way to reach the voters, no legitimacy, and the sheer risk of the oppressed people actually FINALLY getting to register their opinion of the separatist administrations that Russia has inflicted on them.
They are not there “by invitation.” They perpetrated a coup in 2014 and have used it as their personal piggy bank ever since. Just ask “The Big Guy.” He bragged at a CFR meeting how he had a Ukrainian prosecutor fired for investigating “My Son Hunter.”
these referenda get delayed due to unavoidable logistical complications
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and totally unexpected: officials dying, usually when they start their car. Followed by a loud noise.