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DFW

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10. Putin must think he's Metternich
Mon Feb 21, 2022, 10:34 AM
Feb 2022

So, by his logic, western Finland needs to be given to Sweden, eastern Belgium needs to be given to Germany, Transylvania needs to be given to Hungary, southeastern Bulgaria needs to be divided up between Greece and Turkey.

"I am confident that true sovereignty of Ukraine is possible only in partnership with Russia."

I am confident that Putin's imperial designs on the Ukraine can only be possibly realized if a significant majority of the Ukrainians speak out in favor ot it. Seeing as how a significant majority of the Ukrainians are now arming themselves, pleading with all other nations to supply them with additional arms to fight a Russian invasion, I'd say the only thing of which Putin can be confident is that most Ukrainians do not want what he wants.

Next he will try to take Alaska back. There's still plenty of Russians living there Walleye Feb 2022 #1
maybe he'll take brighton beach, too. mopinko Feb 2022 #11
😄 Heh. Been there. electric_blue68 Feb 2022 #16
Who cares what their ancestral ethnicity is or what language radius777 Feb 2022 #2
+1. Every country has a significant contingent of people from neighboring countries dalton99a Feb 2022 #3
... Solly Mack Feb 2022 #4
Sounds like... 2naSalit Feb 2022 #6
It does. Solly Mack Feb 2022 #8
that bit of double speak stuck out to me too. mopinko Feb 2022 #12
Crazy, but lethal. Solly Mack Feb 2022 #14
Heh. Riiiiiiight. electric_blue68 Feb 2022 #17
If ethnic Russians in Ukraine don't like it, then Captain Zero Feb 2022 #5
+1 2naSalit Feb 2022 #7
LOL! n/t EndlessWire Feb 2022 #15
Okay then, let's go back to colonial times. Return the USA to Britain. sinkingfeeling Feb 2022 #9
Putin must think he's Metternich DFW Feb 2022 #10
Let's take this one step further: thucythucy Feb 2022 #13
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