CNN: Russia plotting false flag event in Ukraine

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Sovereignty means that a government gets to decide its own foreign policy; who it chooses to ally with (or not), which international organisations it choose to join or otherwise affiliate with. A state that cannot do this is, by definition, not sovereign. If the governments of former Soviet states decide to hew to a foreign policy detached from that of the Russian Federation, up to an including joining NATO,* whose business is it other than theirs?

_{*And in the specific case of Ukraine it really isn't certain whether this will actually ever happen: quite a few governments are not enthusiastic about the practical implications of expanding the shield of collective security to a state locked in permanent and often very violent series of territorial disputes with Russia.}

[Filuwaúrdjan]

"Massive" lol, few tens of thousands in a handful of them at most. We got more than that in our Brexit demos here so guess France has the right to invade and conquer the UK. Maybe China should take over Siberia the next time there are anti-government protests in Khabarovsk.

...and the pro-Russian candidate only lead in the far east of the country (in the parts of Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts not under Russian occupation plus one electoral district in Kharkiv oblast) and in the Budjak region. The rest of that big blue swathe on all those classic Ukrainian electoral maps? Nope.