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Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm
I was gonna a start a thread on this idea. so, VM was nice enough to start one. lol.
so, heres what I think is going on with why putin is doing this. I don't think he wants all of ukraine, just parts of it.
1. He wants Ukraine binded to Russia the way Belarus is with a Pro-Russian president who doesn't mind rigging votes to stay in power. He lost Ukraine several years ago with the maiden revolution that overthrew a pro-russian president who fled to russia. he wants a puppet state obedient to Moscow.
2. he wants better access to the crimea peninusula where the russian navy port is based. so he wants luhansk, dontesk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblast. I guess if he really wants to be mean, he can the rest of the ukraine coastline. he'd take Mykolaiv and Odessa Oblast which would make ukraine landlocked.
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looks like i was right about the 2nd part. russians have established a narrow land bridge to crimea.
Odessa may be next.
