The Soviets and now the Putinists long ago transplanted ethnic Russians into conquered areas as colonists in order to establish a firm base of support against the Captive Nations ethnics.
Looks like Putin stepped up the infiltration and the “irredentist” movement because he saw that Obama, Biden, Susan Rice, Hillary Clinton and John Kerry was weaklings and surrender monkeys (Libya/Benghazi, Syria, Nigeria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, No. Korea, Venezuela, etc).
This is nothing but a Soviet/Russian “ethnic cleansing”, again, of the Ukraine. No wonder so many Ukrainians greeted the German Army as an army of liberation, after having lost 7-10 million people in the communist-created famines of the 1930’s.
However, I’m willing to bet that you never heard of or read the “Brezhnev Doctrine” of the Soviet Union in the 1960’s, the pretext for the “reinvasion” of Czechslovakia” during the “Velvet Revolution” of 1968.
Simply put, Brezhnev said that what ever country was a member of the Soviet Bloc, (i.e. Cuba specifically), would come under the Soviet Bloc military umbrella and would automatically get Soviet military support in case of revolution or invasion.
Putin is just revising this doctrine into the old Hitlerian one of “Ethnic Protection Doctrine” meaning that Russia has the right to militarily intervene in any European country that has a Russian population which claims to be persecuted/oppressed.
Next on the list: Romania, Hungary, Poland, Baltic States, and maybe even parts of Germany and the old Czechoslovakia.
“What’cha gonna do when they come for you, bad boys”?
Heck, they're too busy letting in Reconquistas from Meh Hee Co.
The Soviets and now the Putinists long ago transplanted ethnic Russians into conquered areas as colonists in order to establish a firm base of support against the Captive Nations ethnics.”
Guess who else did exactly that. To the letter.