Putin didn’t take these areas. They asked to be liberated from an attempted ethnic cleansing. These people have been under siege for nearly a decade. They voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine.
Yes, this gives the lying MSM an opportunity to lie more, but it was the right thing to do to help these people.
He could recognise then as independent republics and maintain his military there until it’s all over. By announcing the annexation he made the MSM job way easier. You don’t do that when you’re on the war.
Putin didn’t take these areas. They asked to be liberated from an attempted ethnic cleansing. These people have been under siege for nearly a decade. They voted overwhelmingly to leave Ukraine.
Yes, this gives the lying MSM an opportunity to lie more, but it was the right thing to do to help these people.
He could recognise then as independent republics and maintain his military there until it’s all over. By announcing the annexation he made the MSM job way easier. You don’t do that when you’re on the war.