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Originally Posted by Pointman
Interestingly, Crimea at 54% is whooping 30% ahead of second place, that is Donbass at 84%. Back in 1991 Russia was in shambles and there was no interest on staying with it. Even Belarus broke away.
Now that Russia is heading back into poverty, there's little point for Donbass to join Russia. They would be better off joining EU/Ukraine. Donbass is not the same at all as Crimea, which is truly Russian region.
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It did occur to me that the unforseen consequence of losing this war for Putin will be a massive drop in support for Russia in all of the 'independent' regions in both the Ukraine and around Russia, it seems likely that Belorussia and Chechnya will see massive upheavals in the next few year, the bribery money from Moscow is going to be turned off as Putin won't have the money to buy this support, same applies to the Donbass, no Russian money, food or weapons might leave them thinking a western supported relatively rich (as rebuilding brings prosperity) Ukraine is a much better bet