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by knowaveragejoe 3635 days ago
Did you willfully ignore what the person you're responding to said? Russian news is largely constructing an alternate reality where facts don't matter, and it appears it's even working on those outside the country to some extent if your comment is any indication. Go visit some Russian news sources and look around.

Here's an example of what's been going on:

>Take Novorossiya, the name Vladimir Putin has given to the huge wedge of southeastern Ukraine he might, or might not, consider annexing. The term is plucked from tsarist history, when it represented a different geographical space. Nobody who lives in that part of the world today ever thought of themselves as living in Novorossiya and bearing allegiance to it—at least until several months ago. Now, Novorossiya is being imagined into being: Russian media are showing maps of its ‘geography,’ while Kremlin-backed politicians are writing its ‘history’ into school textbooks. There’s a flag and even a news agency (in English and Russian). There are several Twitter feeds. It’s like something out of a Borges story—except for the very real casualties of the war conducted in its name.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/rus...

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Ukraine is now US project, so don't even start the "annexing" shit. Because this is what did the US there.
Ukraine is sovereign unitary nation. Only brainwashed with russian propaganda can say that some country or nation is no more then someones project and putting war on it means nothing.

It's about people and there will to be protected against crazy militant russians with stalin and putin in their minds.