True, but remember it was Catherine the Great who started the forced

relocation in the Donbas Region and the relocation of Russians to said region. Even after the rise of the USSR their relationship was "tense" at best. That was one reason Khrushchev gave Crimea to Ukraine even though many Russians didn't agree with the decision or even recognize it. They were willing to overlook it because the transfer was between USSR states. Then when the USSR broke up and Ukraine gained its independence, Crimea was an issue that the Russians planned to revisit at some point in the future. Well they did and we all know how that played out.

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Posted: 03/02/2022 at 4:09PM

Do you think Putin wishes he stuck to buying facebook ads? ** -- MrBayAreaHokie 03/02/2022 3:12PM

I think he will simply increase the ferocity of his assault until Ukraine -- Baltimore Hokie 03/02/2022 3:32PM

Moldova will be next… -- kjhokie 03/02/2022 7:02PM

He will become a Pariah in the west. Hopefully never to set foot in Europe -- UTPr0sim 03/02/2022 3:53PM

I don't think he makes it through the year. The ? is how many die before h ** -- Kudelski 03/02/2022 4:04PM

He may have already achieved pariahhood. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/02/2022 3:54PM

What is victory? -- capitals1 03/02/2022 3:42PM

Great question. ** -- ColoVT82 03/02/2022 6:13PM

An unstable gov with an ongoing civil war between Russia and NATO -- Vienna_Hokie 03/02/2022 4:36PM

If that is all he gets out of this (which I doubt -- capitals1 03/02/2022 4:45PM

The world needs oil and Iran, China and Russia can control most of it -- Vienna_Hokie 03/02/2022 4:54PM

It's tough to occupy anymore -- MrBayAreaHokie 03/02/2022 3:53PM

Well Putin is crazy enough that it is possible his new goal is to level -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2022 3:50PM

But he has nothing to park there. Is he that tertiary syphilis nuts? ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/02/2022 3:53PM

Da. I say that because in just about every speech he keeps referring to -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2022 3:58PM

That overlooks the rise of and formation of USSR and its dissolution. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/02/2022 4:02PM

True, but remember it was Catherine the Great who started the forced -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2022 4:09PM

It's such a broken history, hard to make sense of the timeline. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/02/2022 4:13PM

That's true too. I will say I did study it at VT in the late 90s -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2022 4:17PM

Much has even happened since then. They need to call you back for more. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/02/2022 4:34PM

If they did, then they may never get rid of me ;-) ** -- VTHokie2000 03/02/2022 4:35PM

Agreed. Ukraine can't hold on forever. ** -- NokieHokie 03/02/2022 3:35PM

Neither can the Russian people. ** -- PhotoHokieNC 03/02/2022 3:45PM

Exactly. Nor the Russian military without money, I surmise. ** -- MP4VT2004 03/02/2022 5:17PM

I think he's an idiot, but I guess he'll have to learn that himself. ** -- VT Pez4Life 03/02/2022 3:30PM

Cryogenics- coulda lived forever ** -- bigbadbird 03/02/2022 3:15PM

True, but remember it was Catherine the Great who started the forced

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