Putin's speech today

[brettdale]

What will the reaction be after Putin's speech, I think Putin is less
likely to invade, he just said something along the lines of "This part
of the Urkaine is Russian now"?

I think that may be good enough for him.

[Ray Bruns]

1. I think you are in denial. Vladimir Putin is not a man to bluff.

And you don't need 190k troops to try to squeeze an agreement out of someone.

[bigtree]

2. recognizing those 'breakaway republics' as 'independent' is a pretext to invade

...claiming they invited Russia military in to defend them against Ukraine.

You've really missed a lot of the context.

[bigtree]

7. took a minute

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Christopher Miller @ChristopherJM
BREAKING: Putin orders Russian troops to Donetsk and Luhansk, eastern Ukraine.

Decrees just published call for Russian “peacekeeping” missions to be sent immediately to the newly recognized territories. At the same time, Russian media full of reports of “Ukrainian attacks.”

Link to tweet

[sarisataka]

3. A speech made not so long ago

I have only a few statements still to make. I am grateful to Mr Chamberlain for all his efforts. I have assured him that the German people desires nothing else than peace, but I have also told him that I cannot go back behind the limits set to our patience. I have further assured him, and I repeat it here, that when this problem is solved there is for Germany no further territorial problem in Europe.

And I have further assured him that at the moment when Czechoslovakia solves her problems, that means when the Czechs have come to terms with their other minorities, and that peaceably and not through oppression, then I have no further interest in the Czech state. And that is guaranteed to him! We want no Czechs!
But in the same way I desire to state before the German people that with regard to the problem of the Sudeten Germans my patience is now at an end! I have made Mr Benes an offer which is nothing but the carrying into effect of what he himself has promised. The decision now lies in his hands: peace or war. He will either accept this offer and now at last give to the Germans their freedom or we will go and fetch this freedom for ourselves.

[dalton99a]

4. +1

[Johnny2X2X]

5. Um, that is an invasion

If someone said the state of Maine is now part of Russia, that would be an attack on the US.

[WheelWalker]

6. That's what it is. Yes, indeedy.