RailWonderer
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These people are so poor and can endure misery like medieveal peasants. Combined with Russian state propaganda they'll still be proud to be Russian, even when toothless and freezing in the winter. Sadly that's how I see it. Those eastern Ukrainians that oppose Russian occupation will flee to the west of the country if they haven't already. It's mostly old age pensioners left who are too old to up sticks and were raised on Soviet propaganda. Russian families will probably be moved into occupied territories, Russian banks have already opened up in occupied territories and Russian ersatz western brands are following suit - similar to Israeli tactics but without ersatz western brands.That may have been the case in the past, but the vast majority of Ukrainians, including Russian speaking ones, are now very much against Russia after seeing what the Russians are capable of.
And there can't be many "fighting age" Ukrainian men left in the occupied territory. Do you think their families that have been left without a father/husband will appreciate Russia now? Heck, in much of the occupied Donetsk and Luhansk areas, they don't even have a reliable drinking water supply.
Putin and the Russia government (and state) have now clearly demonstrated that they don't care one bit about human lives regardless of nationality or what language they speak. Putin only cares about himself and his own power.
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He had to flee because that's what leaders do when there is escalating violence and far right militias in the capital. When the Taliban were storming into Kabul like a hot knife through butter, the western backed Ashraf Ghani similarly fled to the west, likewise Assad fleeing Syria to Russia. That said illegally overthrowing in those circumstances was the only thing they could do and even Russia accepted the new Poroshenko government.As for the overthrow of the Yanukovych government, well, Yanukovych signed a deal to end the protests with the opposition, but he chose to flee rather than implementing the deal. There was also a clear supermajority for removing him, including votes from his own Party of Regions. Essentially, he abdicated, and the only way out was for the Ukrainian Parliament to deal with it themselves.
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