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Explosion hits capital of breakaway Ukrainian region (VIDEOS)

Peacenik said:
It is actually kind of shocking Putin didn't do this then while he had the chance. Trump would be out there saying: "No problem. I know better than our deep state intelligence agencies. President Putin has assured me they are not going to attack. "
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Actually, Trump publicly stated that he thought Ukraine should be a part of Russia.
 
Lutherf said:
Maybe. It will certainly stop an UN Security Council condemnations but Russia is already a permanent member so that wasn't going to happen anyway. China might well hop on board the Russia train just to give the middle finger to Biden and the EU but they also know that they are an economic power that the rest of the world can't live without.
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That’s already happened.

Of course, its a train of convenience.

Both have a large geopolitical interest in giving NATO and the US a black eye.

Putin has to cash in on the uncertainly and distrust that the Trump regime sowed throughout the western alliance.
 
watsup said:
Looks like Putin’s false flag scenario has begun. The pretext has become clear. Putin will try to entice the Ukrainian army to attack the “breakaway” regions, at which time he will declare them the aggressor and launch his own attack in order to “protect Russian citizens”. So transparent.
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Putin has been running the same play that Hitler ran against Britain and France during the Czech crisis of 1938.

He was running the same play again less than a year later in Poland.

And WWII did start with a German false flag attack.
 
Mr Person said:
Of course Russia is generating a pretext. The alternatives would be either (1) packing up and going home, losing major domestic face, (2) attacking and outright admitting he's just plain taking it.

I'd expect generation of a pretext even if it had not been our reported intelligence assessment.
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Lose major domestic face over what? Do the Russian people want to go to war with Ukraine (and all that goes along with that)?
 
Empty jeep, purportedly belonging to the Moscow-appointed security chief of the breakaway Russian region, with no other vehicles and no victims at all in the vicinity.

An obvious false flag by Putin.
 
Nomad4Ever said:
Using RT as a source for an issue involving Ukraine? Spectacular.
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Generally recognised as one of the leading news gatherers these days .
RT has grown in every way as fast as the BBC , for example , has slipped downhill and become just another Fake News source re. political and geo-political matters .

As bad as CNN but with far more style and polish than that near finished bust outfit can muster .

Try watching RT and making up your mind based on performance rather than a past stereotyped image .
 
Lutherf said:
Maybe. The lead up to all of this has been so entirely one sided that it's unlikely anyone would believe such a claim.

If Putin does go into Donetsk, especially based on something like this, he isn't going to have much support outside of China and Iran, maybe.
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Makes Putin not a bit of difference. He’s a murderous thing who sees way more positives (for him) than negatives in gaining access to the “bread basket” of the region, adding a more temperate area to his empires.
 
Monica33 said:
Try watching RT and making up your mind based on performance rather than a past stereotyped image .
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Oh I watch RT. It's some pretty good comedy.
 
RT is clearly an unbiased source.
 
Believing Russian media propaganda is equivalent to believing a Confederate newspaper in 1860.
 
Rexedgar said:
Reports state that Russia will evacuate 700k people!

www.reuters.com

Separatists in eastern Ukraine say they plan to evacuate 700,000 people

Russian-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine said on Friday they planned to evacuate around 700,000 people to Russia from the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
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He’s obviously doing this in order to make those people think that they are in grave danger from attack from the Ukrane army. Now if they so much as spit towards the disputed territories , he will yell that it’s the attack that he predicted.
 
Monica33 said:
Generally recognised as one of the leading news gatherers these days .
RT has grown in every way as fast as the BBC , for example , has slipped downhill and become just another Fake News source re. political and geo-political matters .

As bad as CNN but with far more style and polish than that near finished bust outfit can muster .

Try watching RT and making up your mind based on performance rather than a past stereotyped image .
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This post just has to be satire. No way you can be serious.
 
Monica33 said:
Generally recognised as one of the leading news gatherers these days .
RT has grown in every way as fast as the BBC , for example , has slipped downhill and become just another Fake News source re. political and geo-political matters .

As bad as CNN but with far more style and polish than that near finished bust outfit can muster .

Try watching RT and making up your mind based on performance rather than a past stereotyped image .
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How does it compare to FOX?
 
Putins balls seem to be itchy as f**k.

The Russian government mafia and Lukashenko are only waiting for something set up - that they can react on to invade.

Just like Hitler fabricating the invasion of Poland.
 
TomFitz said:
Putin has to cash in on the uncertainly and distrust that the Trump regime sowed throughout the western alliance.
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Too late. NATO is more unified now then it has been since 9/11.
 
Tlrmln said:
Lose major domestic face over what? Do the Russian people want to go to war with Ukraine (and all that goes along with that)?
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The Russian people will follow Putin. He is the Czar.
 
Lutherf said:
Uh oh! That will mean a bigger and better airlift than Biden had in Afghanistan. I sense an escalation in the political optics war.
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That is the least of our concerns right now.
 
TomFitz said:
The Russian people will follow Putin. He is the Czar.
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So if he decides not to invade, and he is the Czar and they will follow him, how does that result in loss of face?
 
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