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Originally Posted by Pointman
We are NOT trying to re-create a Soviet Union. We couldn't care less if Moldova is going to join us back. Or Kyrgyzstan. Crimea is a bit of a special case, as it is historically a Russian, not Ukrainian, land. And even Crimea annexation happened as a response to the coup that toppled an elected president. Otherwise though, no reasonable Russian wants a war just so we could look at the map and say "Look, Armenia is in the same country as us now, cool. I can go visit there. Wait, I could do it before the war anyway, so what was the point".
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Except, like Putin and Lukashenko he wasn’t elected by the people, so it wasn’t really a coup. It was democracy winning, and that is what Putin is going to destroy here in the next few days.