Comments by "Joe R M" (@joermnyc) on "Could Russia be close to an agreement with Ukraine? - BBC News" video.

  1.  @Alias_Ex  You mean they WANT to be oppressed and live under Putin??? They must be crazy! There are lots of Ethnic Russians in many parts of Ukraine, and most of them would rather stay in Ukraine, because Russia right now… it’s not so good to live there compared to democratic Ukraine. A lot of them actually left the east because of the 8 years of civil war. While some did move to Russia, most of them went west because they didn’t want to be an independent vassal state run by Putin’s Russia.
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  2. Russia being the aggressor, Ukraine must accept nothing short of a full Russian withdrawal from ALL of Ukraine including Crimea and Donbas. If those people there want to live in Russia, there’s the border, have fun living under the thumb of Putin… for however long he can stay in power after this embarrassment.
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