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Originally Posted by dino7c
Russia just takes a bunch of land by force, no biggie lol...that should tide them over. And any other country looking to take somethig from a weaker country.
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Russia likely doesn't "take" the land. Instead Russia confirms the independence of East Ukraine, something which they had already done. Prior to the Russian invasion, Ukraine was already involved in a bloody war that had claimed the lives of 10s of thousands. Donetsk and Luhansk had declared independence in 2004. Things escalated into all out war in 2014.
Russia has always promoted themselves as liberators. They get to continue doing that by having what is basically a regional Russian government in Donetsk and Luhansk. It's possible that after declaring "independence" that Donetsk and Luhansk request to join the Russian Federation. However, that's likely several years down the road, with Trump backing some farcical form of independence until the heat is off.