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Re:Putin will recognise breakaway regions as independent sta... by dragonwriter on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @03:07PM (#30432989)
> Russia astroturfed an independence movement in Ukraine as a pretext to break off a chunk of it for themselves.

That's true, but one should note that that only worked because of a large local Russia-sympathetic population.

Otherwise, it would have worked out more like when they tried to inflame California separatism in 2016-2017.

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