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In reply to the discussion: Putin Says Plan to Take Crimea Hatched Before Referendum [View all]tabasco
(22,974 posts)49. You mean words like 'murder,' 'rivals,' and 'dictator?'
Yes those words do have meaning.
First name: Vladimir Putin
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Please tell me you don't actually believe Putin is the Saddam in that analogy.
NuclearDem
Mar 2015
#27
Thanks for adding common sense. The current headline is also out of context
newthinking
Mar 2015
#31
That was the Ukrainian Independence referendum. Crimea's was 94%, not a slim number.
newthinking
Mar 2015
#33
Crimea was 94%? Are typing the right number or the right region or you mean? Ukraine
JonLP24
Mar 2015
#34
"The coup just was the ignition that made what the people there have always wanted happen."
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#44
I'm sorry, but unless you have some facts that substantiate an alternate narrative on Crimea...
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#62
sure. Russia marched into WW2 Ukraine, millions killed by nazis..they never really left.
Sunlei
Mar 2015
#11
your point that "New Russia" was maybe the same as the old Russian Empire was well taken. nt
uhnope
Mar 2015
#15
I'm sure the plans to invade date back even further than what Putin is now admitting.
Tommy_Carcetti
Mar 2015
#43
No doubt, the continued expansionism of New Russia will be rationalized by the apparatchik on DU.
LanternWaste
Mar 2015
#53