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Well, that's certainly an odd choice of targets for Russia.I mean, as an example of just how off the rails Russia is going of late...
I mean, as an example of just how off the rails Russia is going of late...
The Referendum Expressing a Desire to Join the Russian Federation Has Passed in ALL FOUR Russian Occupied Regions, and in Huge Unprecedented Margins As Well. Results reported Tuesday by Russian state media allegedly showed over 98% voting in favor of the measure in the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics; and even 93% voted for it in the Zaporizhzhia and a disappointingly low 87% in Kherson.
Occupied regions of Ukraine vote to join Russia in staged referendums
The so-called referendums — which Ukraine, the U.S. and others have denounced as shams — are widely viewed as an initial Kremlin move toward formal Russian annexation of the territories.www.npr.org
To be fair... How many Ukrainians were even left in the regions? And, we also have to consider that a possibly significant fraction of those who did choose to stay were in fact waiting for their russian "liberators" to arrive. Don't get me wrong, I don't consider the votes even slightly fair or valid, but that's partly because chasing everyone who doesn't like you out of an area and then instructing the remainder to say they want you to be in charge isn't actually democratic even if the actual voting part is entirely above board and legit.87% lol! I guess that they must have flipped the numbers lol. 13% Yes, 87% No, except that the ballots were reversed! But in all seriousness, these results are certainly rigged. But of course Russia will say "Muh Falklands!" to say that such margins are perfectly fair game, ignoring all recent Ukrainian opinion polling to the contrary.
On the job experience.I mean, they're already well on the way to hollowing out their current officer corps, what's another few classes worth for victory?