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ItsjustMe

(11,227 posts) Mon Feb 21, 2022, 02:48 PM Feb 2022

Putin Reportedly Recognizes Ukrainian Region As Independent State (MSNBC)

Russian state media reports that Vladimir Putin has told French and German leaders that he will sign recognition of the contested Donbas region of Ukraine as an independent state.

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Putin Reportedly Recognizes Ukrainian Region As Independent State (MSNBC) (Original Post) ItsjustMe Feb 2022 OP

Independent (wink, wink) State. He means a Client State. Soon governed by Russian Handlers. Thomas Hurt Feb 2022 #1

Someone needs to let Putin know he is not getting the Studentland, Ray Bruns Feb 2022 #2

Hey, Somebody..... McKim Feb 2022 #3

Media better not get his bullshit twisted. This is schizoid hybrid progaganda. ancianita Feb 2022 #4

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)

1. Independent (wink, wink) State. He means a Client State. Soon governed by Russian Handlers.

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 02:55 PM

Feb 2022

Ray Bruns

(4,077 posts)

2. Someone needs to let Putin know he is not getting the Studentland,

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 03:03 PM

Feb 2022

sorry, the Donbass region without some kind of cost.

For a minute there, kinda got my years mixed up there.

McKim

(2,412 posts)

3. Hey, Somebody.....

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 03:30 PM

Feb 2022

Hey, somebody was a winner, we sold a lot of Abrams tanks to Poland, Kachinga!!!

ancianita

(35,933 posts)

4. Media better not get his bullshit twisted. This is schizoid hybrid progaganda.

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Mon Feb 21, 2022, 06:44 PM

Feb 2022

He'll try to re-capture the Soviet empire any way he can get it. That's how he'll try to make the West eat his Eurasia Project elephant -- one bite at a time.

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