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UpInArms

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4. 4 year conflict? WTaF

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Fri Dec 12, 2025, 01:26 PM

Dec 12

In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum[34] immediately following the Revolution of Dignity. It marked the beginning of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

11 years … what pisspoor reporting

ETA … now I see that was from the Washington post … smh … how far it has fallen

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Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern [View all] highplainsdem Dec 12 OP

... Faux pas Dec 12 #1

We can assume Trump had the FBI set up Zelensky. Irish_Dem Dec 12 #2

The corruption was there from the Putin puppet regime driven out by the EuroMaidan protests in 2013. ChicagoTeamster Dec 12 #3

4 year conflict? WTaF UpInArms Dec 12 #4

Zelenskyy probably knows about it duckworth969 Dec 12 #5

What does the FBI have to do with anything in Ukraine? Bayard Dec 12 #6