Posted on 09/23/2022 3:28:03 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Four Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine are expected on Friday to begin voting in referendums on joining Russia, in a move that raises the stakes of Moscow’s invasion seven months after fighting began.
The referendums, which are illegal under international law, could pave the way for Russian annexation of the areas, allowing Moscow to frame the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive as an attack on Russia itself.
Such a move could provide Moscow with a pretext to escalate its faltering war, which has seen Kyiv regain thousands of square miles of territory this month.
In an address Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin raised the specter of nuclear weapons in his address, saying he would use “all the means at our disposal,” if he deemed the “territorial integrity” of Russia to be jeopardized.
The votes, which are expected to take place over five days, were called by pro-Russian officials in the self-declared republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and in Russian-held parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south, with questions on the ballot varying slightly depending on the region. Together the four regions make up around 18% of Ukraine’s territory.
The plans, which are being held under military occupation and effectively carried out at gunpoint, have been strongly condemned by both the government of Ukraine and its allies in the West as “a sham.” The European Union has said it won’t recognize the results and has indicated it is preparing a new package of sanctions against Russia.
Putin backed the referendums in an address to the nation on Wednesday.
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The USA (led by the Puppet Biden) is the last country on earth to be lecturing about “sham” elections. When you have millions of illegal aliens voting by mail-in ballot, with no signature and no verifiable address (in Philadelphia they send ballots to sheds and garages, parks and dead end streets) and then the millions of ballot harvest submitted by fake phony fraud phantom voters, you got a recipe for voting disaster (Designed this way on purpose)!
Don’t talk to me about sham elections in Ukraine. /spit
The evil skank Nuland, the destroyer of worlds.
Hilarious how the Putinettes, who regularly quote marxist media sources, MoonOfAlabama, George Galloway and other crackpots, squeal when you link a story from CNN.
It is amazing isn’t it. Just like tossing a stone over the fence to see how many dogs bark and snarl at it.
Exactly. It’s like putting out flavored flypaper.
Her finger is on the button to his shock collar.
Speaking of puppets, please see 9 and 18.
Serbia’s president Aleksandar Vucic said at the UN that western countries have failed to explain why they possess differing views on Ukraine and Serbia’s integrity, given they support Kiev against Russia, but endorsed Kosovo independence.
Takes a crackpot to recognize a crackpot right?
The entire US, EU and NATO are filled top to bottom with crackpots.
The entire Western/US/UK/EU/NATO propaganda-ridden media is filled with crackpots.
Let’s just agree that the nearly the entire Western ‘world’, which hardly represents the rest of the world, is filled with crackpots....
I don’t lower myself to interacting with you or you ilk. You’re dismissed.
September 22, 2022
Hyperlink to above.
Brainwashed for War With Russia
September 22, 2022
https://raymcgovern.com/2022/09/22/brainwashed-for-war-with-russia/
The typical response from one who has pawned by said ‘ilk’ over and over and over.....
Funny how you use MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow-like tactics of calling others “Putinettes” and yet lecture others while you paint so many here with a broad brush. Get a clue.
Anything else, Ivan?
Can’t handle the truth ic so one must resort to ad hominem attacks. Makes me ashamed I am from the same state as your pathetic self is from.
The problem with any conflict is, you become your enemy. Five minutes after a war starts it is hard to distinguish who has the moral high ground. As for who did what to whom, did this war start on February 2022 or in 2014, or June 1941 or in the sixteenth century? Did Catherine the Great invade Crimea in 1776 because Ukraine was seeking to join the European Union or was cozying up to NATO? Anyone can pick any date and any circumstance to support their narrative.
Not at all, troll. Anklebiters like you simply aren’t worth my time. Squawk among yourselves.
Your ankles are delicious.
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