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They already voted the same way 8 years ago when Ukraine was fully in charge.Sure, but it should be a free and uncoerced process. Not one done under duress by a foreign power.
I'm trying to be consistent. If borders are to be respected, all borders must be respected.@Joe King - I think you are getting lost in the weeds for argument's sake
This election(s)?They already voted the same way 8 years ago when Ukraine was fully in charge.
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According to the text of the Minsk Protocol, local elections in Donbas were meant to be held in early December, in compliance with Ukrainian law.[24] The Russian ambassador, Zakharchenko, and Plotnitsky signed the Protocol. Five days after signing a follow-up memorandum on the implementation of the Minsk Protocol, DPR and LPR authorities announced that they would hold their own elections in November. The United States and the European Union quickly condemned the elections.[24] As a representative of Russia signed the Minsk Protocol, some European leaders asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to use his influence to stop the elections in the DPR and LPR. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on 28 October that Russia would recognise the results and that they did not violate the Protocol.[2] OSCE chairman Didier Burkhalter confirmed that the DPR and LPR elections ran "counter to the letter and spirit of the Minsk Protocol", and said that they would "further complicate its implementation".[25] According to Burkhalter, the Trilateral Contact Group on Ukraine attempted to raise this issue with the DPR and LPR authorities in a video conference on 31 October, but DPR and LPR representatives did not respond.
Foreign observers
The Donetsk People's Republic central election commission said that 50 foreign observers monitored the elections. Most of these observers were far-right politicians and activists, and were said to come from Russia, Abkhazia, France, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Israel and the United States.[15][26] Two organisations were involved in setting up this observer mission. These were the Eurasian Observatory for Democracy and Elections (EODE), run by the Belgian far-right activist Luc Michel, and the European Centre for Geopolitical Analysis (ECGA), run by Polish far-right politician Mateusz Piskorski.[26] Another newly created organisation called the "Agency for Security and Cooperation in Europe" (ASCE), and mainly made up of European far-right politicians, travelled to the DPR and LPR to attempt to legitimise the elections.[27] No monitors from the OSCE were present on election day, and the creation of the similarly named "ASCE" was widely viewed as farcical. One of the members of the organisation, Austrian far-right politician Ewald Stadler, later admitted that it did not legally exist.[10]
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10) "Ukraine rebels lure voters to polls - with root vegetables". The Daily Telegraph. 2 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
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15) "A prelude to a farce: Prearranged ballots for Kremlin-backed breakaway regions". Kyiv Post. 1 November 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
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24) "Eastern Ukraine's Fake State Is About to Elect a Fake Prime Minister". Foreign Policy. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
25) "So-called elections not in line with Minsk Protocol, says OSCE Chair, calling for enhanced efforts and dialogue to implement all commitments" (Press release). Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. 31 October 2014. Retrieved 1 November 2014.
26) Allison Quinn (6 November 2014). "The Faces Behind Ukraine's Rebel Election Observer Mission". The Moscow Times. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
27) Shaun Walker (3 November 2014). "The Guardian". TheGuardian.com. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
28) "Russia calls for talks with Kiev after separatist elections". The Guardian. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
29) "Too early to discuss broader monitoring of Ukraine-Russia border - Lavrov". Interfax-Ukraine. 5 December 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
30) "President Poroshenko in talks over rebel polls". BBC News. 3 November 2014. Retrieved 3 November 2014.
31) Agencies (5 November 2014). "Ukraine to stop cash support for east". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
32) Richard Balmforth and Thomas Grove (5 November 2014). "Ukraine peace plan in tatters, 'frozen conflict' takes shape". Reuters. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
wikipedia statements included citations which I quoted. wikipedia isn't "the source" it's a summary/compilation of many primary sources.How about using a source that isn't wikipedia? ...
That could be used as a great drinking game.
wikipedia statements included citations which I quoted. wikipedia isn't "the source" it's a summary/compilation of many primary sources.
Videos are, in general, not very interesting to me. They are very easy to slant by being selective in who gets interviewed or what gets shown (if things aren't outright staged). I don't watch Michael Moore movies either. Your video was published by Patrick Lancaster who has been caught red handed staging videos:
News, propaganda and confirmation bias
Oh, so now you enjoy Russian state media. Just posting what comes down the pike. I'm sure it's all over the BBC...? Edit by PMBug: I moved some posts here from another thread as this was not germaine to the original topic.www.pmbug.com
I'm sure one could find at least some people on either side that don't agree with their side's politics. To me that would only seem normal.I'm not entirely sure I understand the full context for what is happening here, but I get that at least some people in Georgia aren't happy with Russian overlords.
Looks like Russia was able to intercept and decode conversations between MI6 and the Pentagon. ...
Def sec Shoigu the next day confirms to the media that they have double verified evidence of the dirty bomb and have presented it to hie respective counterparts in the Western nations that are possibly involved.
Firmly propagandized I see. ...
... The dude is nuts ...
You or me?
I'll take your word for it. You accuse me of being firmly propagandized, yet when confronted with the fact that a source of information you champion is a known propagandist and has been caught (more than once!) red handed staging (ie. faking) videos, it fails to pierce your cognitive bias.
You or me?
I'll take your word for it. You accuse me of being firmly propagandized, yet when confronted with the fact that a source of information you champion is a known propagandist and has been caught (more than once!) red handed staging (ie. faking) videos, it fails to pierce your cognitive bias.
Naw, We are CONTROLLED by a bunch of warmongering lunatics.
Dude, because some Factcheck.org says it ....
... Always discredit the source. Find one thing ...
That's the same reason why I don't watch tv. LolThere is no point in wasting time reviewing work for possible nuggets of fact when the source is a known propagandist and proven to fabricate lies multiple times.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused an "epochal break" in Germany's ties with Moscow and the war has shattered former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's dream of a "common European home", President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday.
Steinmeier, who hails from a wing of Germany's Social Democrats that long argued for closer economic ties to Moscow, said Russia's invasion of Ukraine had brought a change in era. ...
The CEO of Thompson Reuters is James Smith. He is a board member of Pfizer, and a member of the World Economic Forum.'No room for old dreams', German president says of Russia ties
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has caused an "epochal break" in Germany's ties with Moscow and the war has shattered former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev's dream of a "common European home", President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Friday.www.reuters.com
And what does that have to do with my post? Did the German not say what was quoted? Was something misrepresented?The CEO of Thompson Reuters is James Smith. He is a board member of Pfizer, and a member of the World Economic Forum.
Reuters slants their reporting in accordance to the agenda. Their positions on all issues completely align with that of the WEF. Unlike this forum, Reuters never gives both sides of the story. What they do is intentionally omit important pieces of information in order to craft a narrative.And what does that have to do with my post? Did the German not say what was quoted? Was something misrepresented?
Yep, A side of Scotty seldom seen. Very good production and information. IMOHere is the commentary on Ukraine that I thought I'd never see.
You know it's bad when Scotty starts talkin' about war instead of cars. Lol
He actually offers some information about Ukraine that I had never heard before.
That's another thing the MSM totally omits. Sevastopol. The Russians have had a naval base there since before the Cold War. Can you imagine if the shoe was on the other foot, and a Russian-backed proxy army attacked a jurisdiction with an American military base?
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