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Putin orders Russian "peacekeeping operations" in eastern Ukraine (www.axios.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Finland doesn't have a majority of ethnic Russians though. It wouldn't make as much sense to make it part of Russia. Russia's actions in the Ukraine are (in a way) democratic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

In what way?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 years ago (1 children)

In the way that the people of Crimea, Donetsk, and Luhansk want to be independent from Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 years ago

Even if this is true, it does seem to me like any democratic process was skipped entirely.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 years ago

there would be no sense in russia going for finland. they already took karelia and the entire population essentially packed up and walked into finland overnight. going for finland? no one's packing up as they got no place to go, and the rest of scandinavia will be pulled into it as a consequence. it's asking for an outright war. a war russia have failed to win repeatedly.