Comments by "cloudpoint" (@cloudpoint0) on "'Referendums' to annex Ukrainian territory begin' | DW News" video.

@pierceplaysstudios245 Only a minority want to be part of Russia in any of the oblasts. Even in Crimea polls showed it was 41% wanted to join Russia in 2014, the highest of any part of Ukraine.
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The four oblasts are not even recognized as independent countries. Nor are any of them even fully occupied. In one case even the oblast’s capital city is not occupied. Which part decides policy, the occupied part or the free part? How can oblasts of another country have any say in joining Russia? Russia doesn’t allow this freedom to its own oblasts. Joining Russia is a one way path unless Russia collapses (a 50/50 possibility now). Why would the people of the oblasts regardless of their ethic group even want to join a dictatorship and give up the western-style freedoms they now enjoy, or would enjoy if fighting stopped? Have they been misinformed about the benefits as happened in Crimea where everyone became poorer afterwards except their masters? The majority is ethnic Ukrainian in all four oblasts and they won’t take kindly to a minority pushing them around. It will be like Crimea where the 41% that choose to join Russia are sorry and want a redo now to rejoin Ukraine. Until Russia has a treaty in hand signed by Ukraine, the occupied lands remain Ukrainian and Ukraine can use as much force as it wishes to eject the occupiers. Russia needed to decapitate Ukraine to get that treaty and they blew it in February. No Russian will be safe in the occupied areas. The oblasts are infested with partisans who will make the new land ungovernable. Putin is in for a lot of hurt.
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