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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Not even Serbia will recognize the Luhansk and Donetsk referendums.
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No real disagreement with the rest, but I wish to point out that Serbia can't possibly agree to split country referendums under any circumstance, as it would require them to dispense of Kosovo and potentially surrounding territory. Possibly it would even open them up to worse #### internally. China also notably won't accept this (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, XinJiang, etc.) It's a confusing play politically because everyone knows it's a sham and even their "allies" (more, not-enemies) are telling them it's a ####ing stupid and pointless idea.
But, it's not for anyone else. Russia seemingly is only hoping to buy justification from a portion of their own populace to use some sort of nuclear weapon to defend this territory post referenda. This comes straight from the mouth of Medvedev, and frankly there's no reason to really doubt this is their current trajectory. US has notably stepped up their "DO NOT NUKE ANYWHERE" rhetoric recently, not just the don't nuke nato territory, so they may believe this is the likely trajectory as well.
And now we wait with baited breath.