In 2014, Russian exploited a very real conflict in Ukraine to establish two little astroturfed statelets, the “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the “Luhansk People’s Republic.”
We’re supposed to believe these were genuine expressions of local political aspirations, even though they were occupied by Russian troops and their “governments” were staffed by Russian officials and intelligence officers.
We’re supposed to believe these regimes represented the people of the Donbas even though they ruled through constant and pervasive violence and were funded through extortionary gangsterism.
We’re supposed to believe these communities chose to join Russia even though the “votes” were conducted at gunpoint.
Anyone who genuinely believes that these little puppet regimes represented real public will to be ruled and brutalized by Moscow should learn a bit about Hawaii and Texas became US states.
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