Big Bad Politics!

HorsesPlease19
Artist -

РОИССЯВПЕРДЕ
Russian nationalists claim that the war in Ukraine is a “special military occupation”. Their goals were:
 
  • make the two Donbass regions independent  
  • arrest all “Nazis” in the Ukrainian government  
  • install a “friendly” government favouring Russia to prevent possible NATO bombardment.
     
    Would Ukraine, under Russian rule, have autonomy, or be annexed into south Russia and be forcibly Russianised?
ponypony221
Chatty Kirin -

Excessively based homo
@HorsesPlease19  
They will be annexed now. There really isn’t an option for Russia: if they have a ceasefire long enough for Ukraine to act independently, it will immediately become part of either NATO or the EU. I think a chance for an independent Ukraine under anyone ended when Ukraine began accepting weapons shipments. Just like Taiwan.
ponypony221
Chatty Kirin -

Excessively based homo
@TeamBlueplant  
I don’t know if they care about Finland. The thinking might be that it would be harder to launch an invasion from Finland than Ukraine. There is also an issue of sea access, which is why they wanted Crimea. Finland has a long coast, but only to places Russia already has access. Invading and controlling Finland would also be more difficult, since they are culturally different.
 
Whatever the case is, they don’t seem to care.
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