Posted on 10/03/2022 6:22:16 PM PDT by canuck_conservative
Referendum participants reported being forced to “vote” at gunpoint by armed “election officials” who could see exactly which boxes were being ticked off on ballots. Human Rights Watch reported that local Ukrainians were fearful that voting against annexation would lead to reprisals, such as having one’s house demolished.
This isn’t the first time Russia has used voter intimidation to fabricate a “correct” referendum result... Polish journalist Pieniazek corroborated international allegations of widespread voter intimidation and fraud, recounting them in detail in his book, Greetings from Novorossiya.
The EU and NATO condemned Russia’s annexation, as have other major powers such as Japan and Turkey, but the United Nations Security Council failed to follow suit as Russia vetoed an anti-annexation resolution. Notably, China and India abstained from voting on that resolution, remaining strategically neutral on the war — though not ideal, ongoing neutrality is an acceptable compromise as Russia will crumble without powerful allies....
[Putin] then accused Kyiv of intimidating millions of referendum participants with violence and death, a claim which there is no evidence for and which doesn’t make sense anyways. Kyiv has little influence in lands occupied by foreign soldiers, and survivors of occupation routinely testify to Russians using wanton harassment and torture to impose near-total control over society.
Putin positioned Russia as an “anti-colonial” leader resisting the hegemony of a “Satanic” and “despotic” west — an ironic claim for a leader who is, at this very moment, colonizing lands where he is overwhelmingly despised....
The day after the speech, Ukraine managed to encircle and capture Lyman, a strategic town in Donetsk, showing that annexation is no shield against the Ukrainian advance. Ukrainian officials claim that Putin delayed evacuating the town in order to avoid an embarrassing snafu just before the annexation announcement — allegedly, this cost Russia 1,500 soldiers....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalpost.com ...
Why do the ‘Rat’s hate Putin when he is one with them?
You’ve got to give him an out to save face. An injured/cornered animal is a dangerous thing.
Give him the territories he took (who were mostly Russian sympathetic anyway) and call it a victory for him. Wait for him to die and then you can retake the lands.
You’ve got to give him an out to save face. An injured/cornered animal *with a huge nuclear arsenal, some of which may just work,* is a *really, really* dangerous thing.
FTFY
One thing I don’t understand; why all the “Russian Defeat Imminent” crap from all media sources? Sounds like the “Cold Fusion” crowd took up a new hobby.
“You’ve got to give him an out to save face. An injured/cornered animal is a dangerous thing. Give him the territories he took (who were mostly Russian sympathetic anyway) and call it a victory for him. Wait for him to die and then you can retake the lands.”
He can save face by withdrawing from Ukraine completely, followed up by a profuse apology.
Why would they want to be cannon fodder for Putin’s war of imperialism?
Yawn...more fake news.
Just give him a bunker and a pistol. Worked for Hitler.
This off-ramp won't stay open for long. https://t.co/phx6ay4l9I— Francis Fukuyama (@FukuyamaFrancis) October 3, 2022
"You want me to kill myself, and you're not going to do it! you suck, YOU SUCK!"
“ You’ve got to give him an out to save face.”
60,000 dead on one side, many thousands dead on the other . And you are concerned about his face ?
The map of land gained is the only thing that doesn't lie.
Anyone that thinks that territory is going back to Ukraine is stupid or delusional.
YES!
Cornered animals won’t hesitate to use Nukes. They’ll happily go scorched earth. It’s how we ended up with WW2 after the legume of nations cornered Germany and destroyed the nation after WW1.
God - has NOBODY read history and just suckles down Biden and the globalists pablum?!
You know you just shot arrows over everybodys head.
It is time to prepare for the children and halloween.
please explain how Russia is “cornered”
there’s no attacks on Russia itself, just on the areas that it is currently illegally occupying in Ukraine
and Russia isn’t about to fall, it’s just being embarassed by a much smaller country
that’s hardly “cornered”
Because Putin is not in favor of LGBTQ, while Zelensky is.
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